REVIEW: WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES (Karen Joy Fowler)

Let’s forget that my edition had a major spoiler on the back blurb for some reason. C’est la vie. This book still sucker-punched me in the gut.

I’d like to say that I read everything, but honestly, you’d be hard-pressed to find me without fantasy romance in my hands. So of course, this book sat on my shelf for a full year before I gave it the attention it deserved.

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves is a study in what makes us human, as all good stories are. It’s dark and lost and contemplative, but also bright and alive. It’s a story about family and the guilt we learn to live with. Maybe most of all, it’s about the lines we draw in the sand of the human experience.

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves is an absolutely stellar read. I cried so goddamn hard that my nose bled.

(Originally published on Goodreads: December 23, 2018)