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Book Review of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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This is a thought-provoking, fascinating, sad and yet uplifting book. It's about "who are you, really?" and what families are, and what memory really is, and what it is to be human, and how humans treat some animals. Rosemary and her family may not be 100% likable - but no real person is either. Her journey in coming to terms with her childhood, what happened to her brother and her sister, is very touching. She thinks she knows what happened but there's so much more than she remembers or even knew at the time. Starting in the middle gave a lot of interesting texture to the story, as different parts come to light.