We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club comes the story of a middle-class American family, ordinary in every way but one--and that exception becomes the beating heart of this extraordinary novel. Meet the Cooke family: mother and dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and our narrator, Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. I spent the first eighteen years of my life defined by this one fact: I was raised with a chimpanzee, she tells us. It's never going to be the first thing I share with someone. I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren't thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern's expulsion, I'd scarcely known a moment alone. She was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half, and I loved her as a sister.Rosemary was not yet six when Fern was removed. Over the years, she's managed to block a lot of memories. She's smart, vulnerable, innocent, and culpable. With some guile, she guides us through the darkness, penetrating secrets and unearthing memories, leading us deeper into the mystery she has dangled before us from the start. Stripping off the protective masks that have hidden truths too painful to acknowledge, in the end, Rosemary truly is for remembrance.

Karen Haber is the author of eight books, including Star Trek: Voyager - Bless the Beasts; writer of Science of the X-Men; and editor of J.R.R. Tolkien's Hugo-nominated essay anthology. Mediations on Middle-earth, by J.R.R. Tolkien. Her short stories have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and a number of anthologies. She writes book reviews for Locus magazine and profiles artists for publications such as Realms of Fantasy. Haber and her husband, Robert Silverberg, live in Oakland, California.

Robert Zohrab is a digital artist and designer from Australia whose work has been featured on book covers and corporate brochures. Among his clients are the Manta recording business, for which he designed album covers and advertising material, and ibooks, inc., for whom he provided cover images for new trade editions of Brian Aldiss's landmark Helliconia trilogy, among others. Darrel Anderson, a digital-art pioneer, rose from the underground comix scene to found braid.com, one of the first and most popular art Web sites. He worked on the animated CGI conclusion of the 1995 film Johnny Mnemonic with members of the BRAID collective and PCA Graphics.

A total of 48 of his images may be found on the Science Fiction Channel's website, and he is featured in Dick Jude's Fantasy Art of the New Millennium II. His work has won top prizes in a number of worldwide competitions, including Pixar's call for images and MacWorld's Macintosh Masters. Anderson is a programmer and an artist who works on both sides of the screen. GroBoto, one of his most recent creations, is an interactive art tool that allows children to explore their creativity while also allowing artists to further theirs.

Braid.com is where you can see and try out Anderson's work.

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ISBN 13	9780142180822
ISBN 10	0142180823
Title	We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Author	Karen Joy Fowler
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2014-02-25
Number of pages	336
Prizes	Winner of PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2014, Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.