We are all completely beside ourselves / Karen Joy Fowler.
"Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. "I was raised with a chimpanzee," she explains. "I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren't thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern's expulsion ... she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister." As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. Then, something happened and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence."--Back cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 0142180823
- ISBN: 9780142180822
- Physical Description: 310 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : PG.P. Putnam's Sons, 2014.
- Copyright: ©2013
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General Note: | "A Plume book." |
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Subject: | Families > Fiction. Self-realization in women > Fiction. Human-animal relationships > Fiction. Life change events > Fiction. Chimpanzees > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. |
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves : A Novel
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves : A Novel
The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family that is ordinary in every way but one in this novel that won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize. Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. "I was raised with a chimpanzee," she explains. "I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren't thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern's expulsion...she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister." As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence. In We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler weaves her most accomplished work to date--a tale of loving but fallible people whose well-intentioned actions lead to heartbreaking consequences. "A gripping, big-hearted book...through the tender voice of her protagonist, Fowler has a lot to say about family, memory, language, science, and indeed the question of what constitutes a human being."--Khaled Hosseini