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We are all completely beside ourselves
- Author
- Fowler, Karen Joy.
- Title
- We are all completely beside ourselves / Karen Joy Fowler.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2013]
- Description
- 310 pages ; 22 cm
- Notes
- "A Marian Wood book."
- Summary
- In this novel we meet the Cooke family. Our narrator is Rosemary Cooke. As a child, she never stopped talking; as a young woman, she has wrapped herself in silence: the silence of intentional forgetting, of protective cover. Something happened, something so awful she has buried it in the recesses of her mind. It changed Rosemary and it destroyed her family. Now her older brother is a fugitive, wanted by the FBI for domestic terrrorism. And her once lively mother is a shell of her former self; her clever and imperious father now a distant, brooding man. And Fern her sister, an endearing chimpanzee, her accomplice in all their childhood mischief, has come to a far more terrible fate than their family could ever have imagined. -- From book jacket. Coming of age in middle America, eighteen-year-old Rosemary evaluates how her entire youth was defined by the presence and forced removal of an endearing chimpanzee who was secretly regarded as a family member and who Rosemary loved as a sister.
- Awards
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 2014 Nebula Award, Best Novel, Nominee, 2013
- Subject headings
- Families--Fiction. Self-realization in women--Fiction. Human-animal relationships--Fiction. Life change events--Fiction. Davis (Calif.)--Fiction. Bloomington (Ind.)--Fiction.
- Genre heading
- Psychological fiction. Domestic fiction.
- ISBN
- 9780399162091 0399162097