![]() ![]() ![]() Rosemary has been struggling with the story of her own life ever since she was five years old. An oft-told story is like a photograph in a family album eventually, it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.” Language does this to our memories-simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. “This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true, only that I honestly don’t know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. ![]() “he happening and the telling are very different things,” she writes in this fictional memoir. Rosemary Cooke, the narrator and protagonist of Karen Joy Fowler’s new novel, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, the 2014 Nashville Reads book selection, is interested in memory and language and story-specifically the myriad ways in which stories can be remembered, told, and interpreted. ![]()
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