{"product_id":"we-are-all-completely-beside-ourselves","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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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":"G.P. Putnam's Sons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51942003310823,"sku":"9780142180822","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_a4645865-287e-4550-90c5-81e85d6d4cd5.jpg?v=1775243361","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/we-are-all-completely-beside-ourselves","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}