We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy Fowler

311 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective medium-paced
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Meet the Cooke family. Our narrator is Rosemary Cooke. As a child, she never stopped talking; now that she's started college, she has wrapped herself in silence: the silence of intentional forgetting, of protective cover. Rosemary is now an only c...

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Community Reviews Summary of 11,113 reviews

Moods

emotional 75%
reflective 68%
sad 43%
informative 35%
challenging 29%
mysterious 22%
funny 20%
dark 19%
adventurous 12%
hopeful 12%
inspiring 9%
tense 9%
lighthearted 3%
relaxing 1%

Pace

medium 66%
slow 25%
fast 7%

Plot- or character-driven?

Character: 56% | A mix: 37% | Plot: 6%

Strong character development?

Yes: 63% | It's complicated: 24% | No: 10% | N/A: 1%

Loveable characters?

Yes: 51% | It's complicated: 31% | No: 16%

Diverse cast of characters?

No: 41% | Yes: 32% | It's complicated: 22% | N/A: 2%

Flaws of characters a main focus?

Yes: 75% | It's complicated: 15% | No: 7% | N/A: 1%

Average rating

3.71

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