WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES by Karen Joy Fowler

In November 2015 we read We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Short Listed for the Man Booker Prize 2014

What if you grew up to realise that your father had used your childhood as an experiment?

Rosemary doesn't talk very much, and about certain things she is silent. She has a sister, Fern, her whirlwind other half, who vanished from her life in circumstances she wishes she could forget. And it's been 10 years since she last saw her beloved older brother Lowell.

Now at college, Rosemary starts to see that she can't go forward without going back, back to the time, when aged 5, she was sent away from home to her grandparents and returned to find Fern gone.

'There have been many books written about sibling love and rivalry but few, I'm sure, can rend the heart and bore beneath the skin quite like this one … prepare to be charmed and traumatised'

OUR STAR RATING:

In A Few Words:

 Deeply moving; Disturbing subject; Heartbreaking' Social experiment gone awry;  Tedious, Unusual