

The novel’s narrator is Rosemary, and was raised alongside an adopted sibling, Fern, by her psychologist parents as part of a long-term experiment. Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, originally published in 2013, is about family, growing-up and developmental psychology. If you would rather not have this detail spoiled for you then read this article up to the first image, then go and read the book, then come back.

Page count: 336 Before I begin: a warning about spoilers.Ī key fact about the characters in this book is revealed a quarter of the way into the novel. TITLE: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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