![]() ![]() However, despite the familiar aspects of Rosemary's current situation the reader gradually discovers that her past is anything but familiar.Īs the daughter of a professor focused in the study of animal behavior, Rosemary’s childhood consists of observational notebooks rather than family scrapbooks. ![]() ![]() ![]() Frustrated parents, apathetic reactions to academic requirements, identity confusion, and lack of clear goals are all present. As a fifth year student, the reader is clued into many of the issues advisors are used to seeing in fifth year students who are not yet preparing to graduate. The reader first meets Rosemary as she is embarking on her fifth year of college at UC Davis. Through the narrative voice of the novel’s main character Rosemary Cooke, Fowler provides us with a unique window into the development of a college student whose identity is more complex than most. Questions of identity, ethics, and family are constantly being examined and reexamined as students develop, learn, and shift their perspectives. As most advisors are aware, student development during college is about far more than academics. What do a chimp, a college student, and the burnt out remnants of an animal laboratory have in common? In author Karen Joy Fowler’s evocative and insightful novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, this seemingly bizarre question is eloquently answered. ![]()
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