When she was born, her parents acquired a chimpanzee, Fern, nearly the same age. Rosemary Cooke was raised with a father that was a psychology professor at Indiana University and who studied primates. "A gripping, big-hearted book.through the tender voice of her protagonist, Fowler has a lot to say about family, memory, language, science, and indeed the question of what constitutes a human being." -Khaled Hosseini Review 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. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence. But until Fern's expulsion.she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister." As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. "I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren't thinking of her as my sister. "I was raised with a chimpanzee," she explains. Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family that is ordinary in every way but one in this novel that won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize.
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