Asymmetry vs We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: Which Should You Read?

Asymmetry Lisa Halliday · 2018 ★★★★☆ 3.5 281 pages · ≈ 5 h 12 m · Moderate

Explores the imbalances that spark and sustain dramatic human relations, tracing the overlapping stories of a young American editor's relationship with a famous older writer, an unexpected New York romance during the…

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Karen Joy Fowler · 2013 ★★★★☆ 3.7 336 pages · ≈ 6 h 13 m · Moderate

“We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favors, we're completely beside ourselves.”

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,…