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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013 original; edició 2013)

de Karen Joy Fowler

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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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Títol:We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Autors:Karen Joy Fowler
Informació:Putnam Adult, Kindle Edition, 321 pages
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Valoració:*****
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves de Karen Joy Fowler (2013)

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Rosemary tells the story of growing up in her family with her brother, sister, imaginary twin sister, and parents. Her father is a professor of behavioral psychology. She starts the story in the middle, jumps around a bit, and eventually makes it through the beginning and the end. The most important milestone in her life is when her sister leaves.

This novel pulled at my heartstrings. It was funny, sad and a page-turner all at the same time. And I learned a lot. ( )
  LisaMorr | Feb 12, 2024 |
Hmmm. Torn between three and four and choosing to round down.

Interesting, sad, upsetting but somehow all oddly clinical and detached. I felt bad for just about everyone involved in this story and I liked the framework and the odd timeline but I did not enjoy the middle sections when Rosie was in college and getting into trouble with Harlow.

I wanted to know much much more about life with Fern.

I think I have to dig out my copy of Ape House (a book I bought but never actually read) and maybe some non-fiction about chimpanzees too. ( )
  hmonkeyreads | Jan 25, 2024 |
I really enjoyed this, however, I thought I was reading a noirish dark thriller type of novel. Turns out, I was reading a book about monkeys.
It's still great, but definitely not what it was sold to me as. ( )
  kimlovesstuff | Dec 31, 2023 |
Briefly, Rosemary is the unreliable narrator of this novel, unreliable because she a) doesn't tell us everything and b) isn't sure if what she remembers actually happened. The story starts in what she calls the 'middle' where she is at college when another young woman, called Harlow, goes beserk in the cafeteria and Rosemary is also arrested. Then we have various flashbacks to Rosemary's unusual childhood, in between what happens at college, and then a very short skimmed through section concerning what has happened since college and when she's, I think, around forty. Avoiding spoilers, I would say I found that last part the most unconvincing, considering the attitudes of the police and FBI to her brother and their suspicions about her - why would they have allowed her to have anything to do with the institution in question?

Luckily or perhaps unluckily I didn't know the big twist beforehand, which comes about 70 odd pages into the novel, concerning the narrator's sister. I'm not sure I would've bothered to purchase the book if I'd known. Luckily I did spend only a couple of pounds on it in a charity shop.

This novel has an agenda, up in neon lights. I'm not unsympathetic to the message, but the book hits the reader over the head with it constantly, in a way that risks alienating readers, and certainly - in my case - boring and irritating them. I didn't find any of the characters interesting or convincing, and the silly antics of her 'friend' Harlow with a stolen puppet of Madame Defarge were wearing in the extreme. The novel's theme should be sibling rivalry, jealousy and guilt, but it's lost among the heavy handed preaching about animal rights and the triviality of the protagonist's college days. So a 2-star disappointment. ( )
  kitsune_reader | Nov 23, 2023 |
Loved this book. It was engaging and well written. It had me from the first chapter. ( )
  JennyPocknall | Oct 19, 2023 |
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Fowler, best known for her novel “The Jane Austen Book Club,” is a trustworthy guide through many complex territories: the historical allure and dicey ethics of experimental psychology, not to mention academic families and the college towns of Bloomington and Davis.
 

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... Your experience as apes, gentlemen—to the extent that you have something of that sort behind you—cannot be more distant from you than mine is from me. But it tickles at the heels of everyone who walks here on earth, the small chimpanzee as well as the great Achilles.

—Franz Kafka, "A Report for an Academy"
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the wonderful Wendy Weil,
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and, in both categories, me
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Those who know me now will be surprised to learn that I was a great talker as a child. (Prologue)
So the middle of my story comes in the winter of 1996.
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What I found in books was daughters indulged and daughters oppressed, daughters who spoke loudly and daughters made silent. I found daughters imprisoned in towers, beaten and treated as servants, beloved daughters sent off to keep house for hideous  monsters. Mostly, when girls were sent away, they were orphans, like Jane Eyre and Anne Shirley, but not always. Gretel was taken with her brother into the forest and abandoned there. Dicey Tillerman was left with her siblings in a parking lot at a shopping mall. Sara Crewe, whose father adored her, was still sent away to live at school without him. All in all, there was a wide range of possibility, and Fern's treatment fit easily inside it.
Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.
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