It’s during one of these asides that she reveals to us that her missing sister, Fern, is not in fact a human being, but a chimpanzee. Rosemary tells us her tale from a first-person perspective, sometimes breaking the fourth wall, speaking to us as the audience, letting us know that she’s telling us a tale and giving us a peak into her process. As it progresses, the beginning is revealed and obviously, later on, the end. It’s set up almost like a mystery that is intentionally started in the middle of the story. And that her brother essentially disappeared not long after. We are told pretty early on that her sister disappeared when she was five. She has a brother, a sister and a mom and dad. She’s a student at UC Davis who was raised in Indiana. Well, it’s simple until that reveal I mentioned. The plot of this novel is relatively simple. It’s actually impossible to talk about the this book without spoiling a piece of it. I imagine the author, Karen Fowler, just thought it was clever and decided that she wanted a book with that title regardless of the narrative therein. In fact, even after reading the thing, I’ve no idea how the title has anything to do with it. And the cover is also not an indicator of what’s what. The title, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, doesn’t give any indication. I came to this novel with very little idea of what it was about.
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