66 pages 2 hours read

Karen Joy Fowler

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

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Essay Topics

1.

How does this book frame the subject of science? Perhaps write about science in relation to self-conception and science in relation to memory.

2.

This book begins in medias res, meaning that it does not start at the chronological beginning of the story. How does this decision, and the narrator’s own acknowledgment of it, impact the story? What are the effects of the interjections from an older Rosemary and flashbacks to a much younger Rosemary?

3.

Reading this book as a feminist text, what does Fowler argue?