These depths do not lie heavy on the mind, for Rosemary, a young woman so witty, damaged, and different that her voice is, paradoxically, as familiar, and as inclusive, as that of your own sister. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler’s sixth novel, is a masterful and beautiful balancing act, seamlessly unfolding a family tragedy balanced by the sly humor of Rosemary Cook, the first-person narrator who inhabits three ages: her five-year-old, her 22-year-old, and her mid-forties selves.įowler’s novel interrogates the processes that form and re-form us: family dynamics memory forms of abandonment and abuse commitment, betrayal, and guilt how we create and (if lucky) re-create identity how we learn language the psychic cost of our use of animals for food and for research and degrees of love and of knowing.
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