We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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by Karen Joy Fowler

What if you grew up to realise that your father had used your childhood as an experiment?

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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.

Now her adored older brother is a fugitive, wanted by the FBI for domestic terrorism. And her once lively mother is a shell of her former self, her clever and imperious father now a distant, brooding man.

And Fern, Rosemary’s beloved sister, her accomplice in all their childhood mischief? Fern’s is a fate the family, in all their innocence, could never have imagined.

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Book Condition

Used – Good

Cover

Hardcover

Size

323 pages

Published

March 5, 2015 by Serpent's Tail
First published May 30, 2013

Genre

Fiction, Contemporary

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)