We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves A Novel

<b>Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award <br>Finalist for the Man Booker Prize<br>A <i>Kirkus Reviews </i>Best Fiction Book of the Century<br><br>The <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Jane Austen Book Club</i> introduces a middle-class American family that is ordinary in every way but one in this award-winning novel.</b><br><b> </b><br>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.<br><br>In <i>We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves,</i> 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.<br><br><b>“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 </b>