We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
About this book
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 is a chimp and, already, you aren't thinking of her as my sister. . . . Until Fern's expulsion . . . she was my twin, my fun-house mirror, my whirlwind other half. . . . 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.
Reader Profile
3.7/5 · 128900 readers · 336 pages · ≈ 6 h 13 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves?
About ≈ 6 h 13 m — 336 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves?
336 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves?
It sits on the Fiction shelves.
Is We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves?
Karen Joy Fowler (1950–0).