We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy Fowler

336 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective medium-paced

Description

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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Moods

emotional 75%
reflective 69%
sad 42%
informative 33%
challenging 28%
mysterious 25%
funny 20%
dark 18%
adventurous 12%
hopeful 12%
inspiring 10%
tense 9%
lighthearted 3%

Pace

medium 66%
slow 26%
fast 7%

Plot- or character-driven?

Character: 52% | A mix: 40% | Plot: 6%

Strong character development?

Yes: 64% | It's complicated: 23% | No: 11%

Loveable characters?

Yes: 49% | It's complicated: 33% | No: 16%

Diverse cast of characters?

No: 41% | Yes: 30% | It's complicated: 25% | N/A: 2%

Flaws of characters a main focus?

Yes: 77% | It's complicated: 12% | No: 8% | N/A: 1%

Average rating

3.71

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