Rosemary Cooke is a fifth year college student who can't settle on a major because she is leading a most unsettled life. Loosely based on an experiment conducted in the 1930s by married scientists who attempted to raise a baby chimp along with their infant daughter, Fowler examines what it would be like for the human children who were part of such a family. While that is not an unusual occurrence in novels about families, never have I read one in which the lost member was a chimpanzee. Karen Joy Fowler's novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves is a story about a family torn apart by the loss of one member. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves is the story of an American family, middle class in middle America, ordinary in every way but one.
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