![]() ![]() We are among the many animals that evolved to live here and the distance between them and us is not as great as previously imagined. We are beside ourselves completely, first of all because we evolved for this particular world – we are not above but inside it and of it. But my title is meant to suggest a literal reading as well. The phrase (the very odd phrase, when you stop to think about it) of being beside oneself generally means being extremely excited or extremely agitated and that’s the context in which I’ve always heard it employed. “The title does have at least a double meaning and maybe a triple one.”ĪUTHORLINK: Talk to me about the title We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves? The reader encounters the phrase when Rosemary recalls playing with her sister Fern, but does it have a double meaning?įOWLER: The title does have at least a double meaning and maybe a triple one. The book deals both with the minutiae of family life and the larger questions of the place of humans and animals in the world. ![]() Told from the perspective of Rosemary Cooke, we learn about her sister Fern’s banishment from the family and its repercussion for each member of the family. In her latest book, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler offers the look into an unusual family and the circumstances that change them forever. ![]() Fowler Explores Larger Issues in Novel About an Unusual FamilyĪn exclusive Authorlink interview with Karen Joy Fowler ![]()
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