We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

December 30, 2014 by Christina

Fiction — print. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013. 310 pgs. Library copy. Rosemary Cooke, the narrator, begins her autobiography in the middle: a seemingly bizarre incident where an unknown woman becomes violent in the middle of a cafe after her boyfriend breaks up with her and Rosemary joins in by climbing on the table and dropping her glass of milk. The charges against Rosemary are dropped after a phone call to her father, who extracts a promise from Rosemary that nothing […]

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The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

February 19, 2013 by Christina

Fiction — print. Plume, 2005. 288 pgs. Purchased. My mother picked me a copy of Fowler’s novel at the public library’s used book sale last fall. (I’ve given her a blanket instruction to purchase all Austen-related novels she comes across.) She called to tell me about it, and I told her that I had already read the book. It wasn’t till I returned home in December that I got the feeling that I hadn’t actually read Fowler’s book. Now, having […]

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