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Title	:	We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Author	:	Karen Joy Fowler
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 310 pages
Published	:	May 30th 2013 by G.P. Putnam's Sons
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Hardcover | Pages: 310 pages

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Meet the Cooke family. Our narrator is Rosemary Cooke. As a child, she never stopped talking; now that she's started college, she has wrapped herself in silence: the silence of intentional forgetting, of protective cover. Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone—vanished from her life. Her once lively mother is a shell of her former self, her clever and imperious father now a distant, brooding man. And there was something unique about Rosemary's sister, Fern. You'll have to find out for yourself what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other.

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Original Title:	We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
ISBN:	0399162097 (ISBN13: 9780399162091)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Rosemary Cooke, Lowell Cooke, Fern
Setting:	Bloomington, Indiana(United States) Davis, California(United States) Indianapolis, Indiana(United States)
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (2014), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2013), Warwick Prize for Writing Nominee for Shortlist (2015), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2014), California Book Award for Fiction (Gold) (2013) John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee (2014), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for International Book (2015), Specsavers National Book Award for International Author of the Year (2014)

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Karen Fowler writes Science Fiction stories. Great ones. Shes won the prestigious Nebula Award, not once but twice. Now no doubt you are wondering, so what? If you know anything about Fowlers tear-provoking, often hilarious, brilliantly realized new novel, We are All Completely Beside Ourselves, than surely you know that it isnt a work of science fiction. If youve suffered the misfortune of reading most reviews, than you know this novels great reveal. Spoiler alert here: I will give you no

Karen Fowler writes Science Fiction stories. Great ones. Shes won the prestigious Nebula Award, not once but twice. Now no doubt you are wondering, so what? If you know anything about Fowlers tear-provoking, often hilarious, brilliantly realized new novel, We are All Completely Beside Ourselves, than surely you know that it isnt a work of science fiction. If youve suffered the misfortune of reading most reviews, than you know this novels great reveal. Spoiler alert here: I will give you no

This isn't going to be a long review, because I don't want to ruin this book for anyone. Seriously, don't click on the title. Don't read any other reviews. Because all I knew going into We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves was that it was about some type of dysfunctional family. And really, that can mean anything. And it's so much better that way!I loved the tone of the book, the dry humour and the elegance of the writing, how it's entertaining but appropriately sad and serious at times. The

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A dysfunctional family story used to consider primates in research. It falls somewhere between a soft agitated oo oo and an outraged shriek over animal rights.The first 100 or so pages reminded me of a former co-worker. He had long, loud personal telephone calls in a shared workspace. They were awkward and convoluted because he avoided personal pronouns as well as names using this person and that person. When he later made his big reveal, it didnt get much reaction. Just polite comments about

The most absorbing books I read have a vital lesson at their core: they teach me what it means to be human. Karen Joy Fowlers latest book tackles this crucial theme and by doing so, captured my heart and reduced me to tears.There is no getting around that this is an agenda book. Ms. Fowlers purpose is to show usthrough fictionthat the most complicated animal the human animal can be disastrous to the rest of the animal kingdom through sheer arrogance.Typically, I avoid authorial intrusion like