We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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

Product details

• Authors: Karen J. Fowler, Karen Joy Fowler, Fowler Karen Joy
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.02.2014
• EAN: 9780142180822
• ISBN: 978-0-14-218082-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 205 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Plume
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Fiction: literary and general non-genre