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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler (born 1950)
English editions
Written in EnglishWe Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
G. P. Putnam's Sons · United States · 25 February 2014 · Paperback · 336 pages
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
G. P. Putnam's Sons · United States · 2013 · Hardcover · 320 pages
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Rosemary Cooke, a student at the University of California, Davis, begins halfway through, for reasons of her own. As a small child in Indiana she talked without pause, until an event she will not name at first silenced her. Her father, a professor of psychology, and her mother raised a chimpanzee, Fern, with her for a research project, and Rosemary loved Fern as her twin. Fern's removal broke the family apart: her mother fell into depression, her father into drink, and her older brother Lowell ran away and is now sought by the FBI. A reckless friendship with a fellow student, Harlow, lands Rosemary in jail, and as she tells what happened she weighs family, memory and what it means to be human.
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- Novel
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- Family (assigned by AI)
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- United States
- First published
- 2013
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- 63 when first published
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9780399162091 (G. P. Putnam's Sons, United States)
9780142180822 (G. P. Putnam's Sons, United States)
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