We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
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- 6,49 €
Publisher Description
'Wise, provocative and wildly endearing' Guardian
'Readably juicy and surreptitiously smart' Barbara Kingsolver
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER
Rosemary doesn't talk much, and about certain things she's silent. She had a sister, Fern, her whirlwind other half, who vanished from her life in circumstances she wishes she could forget. And it's been ten years since she last saw her beloved older brother Lowell.
Now at college, Rosemary starts to see she can't go forward without going back to the time when aged five, she was sent away from home to her grandparents and returned to find Fern gone.
It was Rosemary's parents who began all of the trouble - isn't it always? But, dear reader, exactly how they did it is a twist you'll have to discover for yourself.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Karen Joy Fowler made waves as one of the first American authors ever nominated for the Man Booker Prize upon clinching a spot on 2014’s shortlist with this raucous novel. Her protagonist, Rosemary Cooke, is a hilarious, messy and completely absorbing narrator, unspooling the story of her broken-up family with snide commentary and riotous asides. As a child, Rose was an incessant talker who was instructed to “start in the middle” of a story. Fowler holds back major revelations about the disappearance of Rose’s siblings—and the role of her pedantic psychology professor father—and enthralls readers with a wildly original family saga.
