We are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- ISBN-10
- 0142180823
- ISBN-13
- 9780142180822
- Series
- We are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 310
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Author
- Karen Joy Fowler
Description
Coming of age in middle America, 18-year-old Rosemary evaluates how her entire youth was defined by the presence and forced removal of an endearing chimpanzee who was secretly regarded as a family member and who Rosemary loved as a sister. By the best-selling author of The Jane Austen Book Club.
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- 2021-05-06
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