We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

By Karen Joy Fowler Karen Joy Fowler

Subjects: nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2014-03-16, Fiction, coming of age, Self-realization in women, Amerikanisches Englisch, psychological fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Human-animal relationships, Chimpanzees as pets, Families, Large type books, New York Times bestseller, Family Life, Literary, Coming of age, Fiction, family life, Chimpanzees, domestic fiction, Roman, Fiction, Adolescence, Fiction, psychological, Coming of Age, Life change events, Family life

Description: 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 is a chimp and, already, you aren't thinking of her as my sister. . . . Until Fern's expulsion . . . she was my twin, my fun-house mirror, my whirlwind other half. . . . 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.