We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

　　「這是本讓人無法放下的感人作品。」－《追風箏的孩子》胡賽尼



　　我的名字叫作蘿絲瑪莉，我今年五歲，我有一對很酷的父母，還有一個哥哥洛威，還有我最愛的妹妹芬恩，她就像我的雙胞胎妹妹，我們彷彿像鏡中的孿生子，但大家都知道，我最喜歡的芬恩，其實是黑猩猩。



　　五歲那一年，蘿絲瑪莉的人生出現了巨大變化，她視為妹妹的芬恩不見了，不久後連她哥哥洛威也離家出走，蘿絲瑪莉沉默了，這個家庭逐漸出現裂痕。原來蘿絲瑪莉的父母是科學家，而芬恩，是他們的實驗對象，在科學實驗和道德間，人類與動物又有多大的差異？而人類在自以為的善意下，將寫下無法挽回的悲劇。（文／博客來編譯）　

Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize
Winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award
One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2013
Named by The Christian Science Monitor as one of the top 15 works of fiction

The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family, ordinary in every way but one...

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.

In We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, 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.

"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

Karen Joy Fowler, a PEN/Faulkner and California Book Award winner, is the author of six novels (two of them New York Times bestsellers) and four short story collections. She has been a Dublin IMPAC nominee, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2014. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.