"A gripping, bighearted book." --Khaled Hosseini
Winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award
One of the "New York Times Book Review's "100 Notable Books of 2013
and named by "The Christian Science Monitor "as one of the top 15
works of fiction
The "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Jane Austen Book
Club" introduces a middle-class American family, ordinary in every
way but one.
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.
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.