We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Meet the Cookes: mother and dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, andour narrator, Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has herreasons. "I spent the first eighteen years of my life defined by this one fact:I was raised with a chimpanzee. It's never going to be the first thing I sharewith someone. I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren't thinking ofher as my sister. But until Fern's expulsion, I'd scarcely known a momentalone." Rosemary was not yet six when Fern was removed. Over the years, she'smanaged to block a lot of memories. With some guile, she guides us through thedarkness, leading us deeper into the mystery she has dangled before us.