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ryliereadss 's review for:
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
by Karen Joy Fowler
emotional
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book kept me up at night because of how frustrated I was with the characters. Rosemary was 11 when her sister Fern, a monkey she was raised with, was taken away and her brother Lowell left to go find her. The book jumps back and forth between stories of Rosemary growing up and her life as a 21-year-old college student. It was interesting to read about and hear about her perspective on some events that happened in her life with Fern. We learn that she hasn't seen or heard from her brother but when she comes home from class one day she learns that a man came to visit her. It was so frustrating that Rosemary kept missing Lowell when he came and her friend Harlow got to meet him instead. I'm not quite sure what I got from the book. I know more about how animals have been mistreated. There is some misremembering which was interesting. The ending was relatively satisfying. I could be talked into reading Fowler again.