5/22/2023 0 Comments Completely beside myself![]() ![]() 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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