![]() One summer, Rose was sent to her grandparents’ house while the family moved. Rose wanted to know life without Fern.Īnd then she did. In We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, author Karen Joy Fowler ( Wit’s End, The Jane Austen Book Club) offers a masterful account of a woman unraveling a tangle of family history, memory and the complex emotions that arise from the way she was raised.Īs a girl, Rose’s identity was forged against her will, leaving her marked as “monkey girl”-like most siblings, Rose’s movements and attitudes mimicked her sister’s. Rose and Fern are their father’s work: Fern is a chimp, being raised as a daughter in a human family. In fact, Rose thinks everyone would pay more attention to her if Fern weren’t around.īut that’s where the Cookes are different from most families. ![]() As the youngest, Rose admires her older brother, Lowell, and is jealous because she thinks he loves her sister, Fern, the most. ![]() ![]() Her father is a behavioral psychologist who always brings his work home, and her mother is his supportive better half. Rosemary Cooke is, in many ways, an ordinary girl raised in an ordinary family. ![]()
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