We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves -- Karen Joy Fowler

<b>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 novel that won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize.</b> <p/> 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. <p/> 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. <p/><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><br><br><b>Author:</b> Karen Joy Fowler<br><b>Publisher:</b> G.P. Putnam's Sons<br><b>Published:</b> 02/25/2014<br><b>Pages:</b> 336<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.50lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.70d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780142180822<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-