We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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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.

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