We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Recommended by Ryan Holiday, and 1 others. See all reviews

Ranked #57 in Memory Improvement

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 child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone—vanished from her life. Her once lively mother is a shell of her former self, her clever and imperious father now a distant, brooding man. And there was something unique about Rosemary's sister, Fern.
You'll have to find out for yourself what it is...
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Ryan Holiday AuthorIn chaotic times, novels are a way to find peace and keep that flicker of vulnerability alive and nurtured. [...] The story is funny, heartbreaking—like literally will make you cry heartbreaking, especially if you have children—and beautifully written. (Source)


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