We are all completely beside ourselves: a novel

"Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her storyin the middle. She hasher reasons."I was raised with achimpanzee," sheexplains. "Itell you Fernwasa chimp and already youaren't thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern's expulsion...she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister." As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. Then, something happened and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence."--back cover.