The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club 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. 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. "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
