We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler

Title: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Author: Karen Joy Fowler
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 2/5
# pages: 308
Date read: February, 2018

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's silent. She had a sister, Fern, her whirlwind other half, who vanished from her life in circumstances she wishes she could forget. And it's been ten 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 five, she was sent away from home to her grandparents and returned to find Fern gone.


Unfortunately I was really disappointed by this book. I didn't care for the writing style, the twist seemed pointless and the plot almost non-existing. I thought it was going to go somewhere interesting, but then it just fizzled into an anti-climatic non-ending.

I had had high hopes, as everybody seems to rave about this book, but unfortunately it could only just make it to "okay" for me, and I'll probably end up passing my copy along to someone else.