Book Club - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Our monthly vegan book club is held at my house in Sicklerville, NJ. I'll have coffee and tea available, bring a vegan baked good or snack if you like (optional) for us to enjoy as we discuss this month's book.

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In We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler weaves her most accomplished work to date—a tale of loving but fallible people whose well-intentioned actions lead to heartbreaking consequences.

The novel's narrator, Rosemary Cooke, is a girl raised to believe that a chimpanzee is her literal family member. It causes the reader to reexamine their own separation of "human" and "animal," and analyzes what the lack of that separation might do to a person, or to a family. The book is gripping, well-written, and sometimes funny, but is NOT a feel-good book and raises some difficult questions. Looking forward to a good discussion on this one!

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