We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | 2014 | Winner |
About This Book
A woman looks back on her unconventional childhood and the missing members of her family. A deceptively structured novel about scientific ethics, animal rights, and what it means to be human. Nebula Award finalist and PEN/Faulkner Award winner.
About the Author
Karen Joy Fowler is an American novelist whose book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013) won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2014 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The novel is a formally inventive story about a woman who grew up with a chimpanzee sister and the long-term consequences of that unusual childhood. Fowler is also known for The Jane Austen Book Club (2004), a novel about a book club in California that was adapted into a successful film, and for her science fiction work including Sarah Canary (1991). Read more →
