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We are all completely beside ourselves

Coming of age in middle America, eighteen-year-old Rosemary evaluates how her entire youth was defined by the presence and forced removal of an endearing chimpanzee who was secretly regarded as a family member and who Rosemary loved as a sister.

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Main Author: Fowler, Karen Joy
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2013.
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Families > Fiction.
Self-realization in women > Fiction.
Human-animal relationships > Fiction.
Life change events > Fiction.
Domestic fiction > United States.
Psychological fiction > United States.
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Summary:Coming of age in middle America, eighteen-year-old Rosemary evaluates how her entire youth was defined by the presence and forced removal of an endearing chimpanzee who was secretly regarded as a family member and who Rosemary loved as a sister.
Item Description:"A Marian Wood book."
Physical Description:310 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9780399162091
0399162097
Author Notes:Karen Joy Fowler is the author of several novels and short story collections. Her works include Sarah Canary, The Sweetheart Season, Sister Noon, and The Jane Austen Book Club. She has received numerous awards including the World Fantasy Award in 1999 for Black Glass, the World Fantasy Award in 2011 for What I Didn't See, and the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. This same title was nominated for The Man Booker Prize for Best Novel in 2014.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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