There isn't much plot and the characters are thinly drawn. The flimsy "story" is an excuse for the author to rant about animal rights, and she undermines her cause by stacking the deck in her favor. There are many needless descriptions of cruel experiments on animals. Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not? I would have no problem recommending it to anyone. This story resonated with me and is one of my better reads/listens of the year. Book endings can be funny business sometimes and I feel that this one was just about right. The book does start off in a strange place, in the middle of the story, but don't let that put you off because it doesn't take long for her to go back to the beginning of all that happened. This is a beautiful and sad story, one that pulled at my heartstrings. I don't want to reveal much more of the story because I think it might be more enjoyable the less the reader knows about it to begin with. I checked more than once to make sure that this wasn't a memoir because she made it seem so believable from the 1st person narrative. Fowler is able to write this story as if the story had happened to her, as if she were Rosemary. The story is narrated by Rosemary, and her view of how this tragedy affected herself and the other members of the family. This story is about a family being broken apart in the most unusual way. The title, "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves," sums the book up perfectly.
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