{"product_id":"book-b56o","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/b\u003e\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49336009359664,"sku":"BDb56o","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/b56o-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776287168","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-b56o","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}