![]() The Seattle Times Elegantly and humorously orchestrated.Knitting together Rosemary’s at times poignant, at times hilarious scraps of uncovered memories, Fowler creates a fantastical tale of. Stripping off the protective masks that have hidden truths too painful to acknowledge, in the end, "Rosemary" truly is for remembrance. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves is Fowler at her best, mixing cerebral and emotional appeal together in an utterly captivating manner. In We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler weaves her most accomplished work. With some guile, she guides us through the darkness, penetrating secrets and unearthing memories, leading us deeper into the mystery she has dangled before us from the start. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence. She's smart, vulnerable, innocent, and culpable. ![]() Over the years, she's managed to block a lot of memories. Rosemary was not yet six when Fern was removed. She was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half, and I loved her as a sister." But until Fern's expulsion, I'd scarcely known a moment alone. I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren't thinking of her as my sister. ![]() "It's never going to be the first thing I share with someone. ![]() "I spent the first eighteen years of my life defined by this one fact: that I was raised with a chimpanzee," she tells us. Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and our narrator, Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. But that exception is the beating heart of this extraordinary novel. ![]() From the New York Timesbestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club, the story of an American family, middle class in middle America, ordinary in every way but one. ![]()
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