{"product_id":"9780399162091","title":"We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2014 PEN\/Faulkner Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e's 100 Notable Books of 2013\u003cbr\u003eNamed by \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor \u003c\/i\u003eas one of the top 15 works of fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Jane Austen Book Club\u003c\/i\u003e introduces a middle-class American family, ordinary in every way but one...\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. “I was raised with a chimpanzee,” she explains. “I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren’t thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern’s expulsion...she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister.” As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWe Are All Completely Beside Ourselves,\u003c\/i\u003e Karen Joy Fowler weaves her most accomplished work to date—a tale of loving but fallible people whose well-intentioned actions lead to heartbreaking consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A gripping, big-hearted book...through the tender voice of her protagonist, Fowler has a lot to say about family, memory, language, science, and indeed the question of what constitutes a human being.”—Khaled Hosseini \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027794346224,"sku":"9780399162091","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780399162091_p0.jpg?v=1763698455","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780399162091","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}