![]() ![]() ![]() “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. 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. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence. 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. “I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren’t thinking of her as my sister. ![]() “I was raised with a chimpanzee,” she explains. Clearly, something traumatic happened when. Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves isn’t just about an unusual childhood experiment it’s about a lifetime spent in the shadow of grief. Soon Chandler Scott reappears and this time, he files a case. Summary of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler by Bookhabits from. 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. Three years after they got married, Liz dies and Bernie and Jane are left to pick up the pieces. ![]()
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