This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true, only that I honestly don’t know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it.’ Reader, you have been warned.
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves begins in the middle, in what narrator, Rosemary Cooke, freely admits is a play at misdirection and cautions that in her story: ‘the happening and the telling are very different things. That makes this one a little tricky to talk about, and if I sound vague (or vaguer than usual), I’m merely doing my best to avoid mentioning the unmentionable. Savvy readers may spot it before the big reveal, but I’m not going to ruin it for you here.
Margot McGovern reviews We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Penguin, 2013) by Karen Joy Fowler.Ī note before I begin: ‘When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.’ We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves has a significant twist a little way in.
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