We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

1 About this book

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. 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.

• Psychological fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Family life
• Coming of age
• Self-realization in women
• Human-animal relationships
• Life change events
• Adolescence