**A gripping, bighearted book. Khaled Hosseini** \*\*Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 Winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award \*\* **One of the *New York Times Book Review's* 100 Notable Books of 2013 and named by *The Christian Science Monitor* as one of the top 15 works of fiction** The
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: A Novel (Pen/Faulkner Award: Fiction): novel
β Scribed by Fowler, Karen Joy
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;Plume
- Year
- 2013;2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 196 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1322806454
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β¦ Synopsis
"Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. "I was raised with a chimpanzee," she explains. "I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren't thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern's expulsion ... she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister." As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. Then, something happened and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence."--Back cover.
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