We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy Fowler 2013

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
family grief identity animal rights

Our Take

Fowler hides the reveal until a third of the way through, by which point you are already implicated. The Cooke family's experiment in shared childhood leaves everyone — human and not — damaged in ways that defy easy accounting. The sister Rosemary lost was not the only one lost.

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