{"product_id":"9780142180822","title":"We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Faulkner Award \u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Man Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003eBest Fiction Book of the Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Jane Austen Book Club\u003c\/i\u003e introduces a middle-class American family that is ordinary in every way but one in this award-winning novel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeet 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWe Are All Completely Beside Ourselves,\u003c\/i\u003e Karen Joy Fowler weaves her most accomplished work to date—a tale of loving but fallible people whose well-intentioned actions lead to heartbreaking consequences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A gripping, big-hearted book...through the tender voice of her protagonist, Fowler has a lot to say about family, memory, language, science, and indeed the question of what constitutes a human being.”—Khaled Hosseini \u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Karen Joy Fowler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45893599789268,"sku":"9780142180822","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_48f92905-4318-4547-8328-4551449e35d5.jpg?v=1732361638","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780142180822","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}