16 August 2015

Book 82: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler


This was great. I've read a couple of other titles by this author before, and the books were good, but some excellent writing in combination with a wonderful, original story took this book to new heights. It's hard to say too much about the story without giving away key information, but the blurb on the book actually sums it up quite well, so I'll paraphrase that... Rosemary had a sister when she was small, who vanished from her life in circumstances she'd prefer not to think about. In her early adulthood, she begins to see that in order to move forward with her life, she needs to go back and understand what happened when she was five and returned from a visit to her grandparents to find Fern gone. 

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