We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (Pen/Faulkner Award - Fiction)

by Karen Joy Fowler

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Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. So we're not going to tell you too much either: you'll have to find out for yourselves what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other.
Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone - vanished from her life. There's something unique about Rosemary's sister, Fern. So now she's telling her story; a looping narrative that begins towards the end, and then goes back to the beginning. Twice.
It's funny, clever, intimate, honest, analytical and swirling with ideas that will come back to bite you. We hope you enjoy it, and if, when you're telling a friend about it, you do decide to spill the beans about Fern - it's pretty hard to resist - don't worry.
  • ISBN10 1846689953
  • ISBN13 9781846689956
  • Publish Date 6 March 2014 (first published 30 May 2013)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 26 July 2014
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Serpent's Tail
  • Edition Export/Airside
  • Format Paperback (UK Trade)
  • Pages 320
  • Language English