Karen Joy Fowler_39

The central mystery of 'We are all Completely Beside Ourselves' is: what happened to Fern? Fern and Rosemary are sisters, all but twins, inseparable until Rose is five and Fern, inexplicably, is gone. 'We are all Completely Beside Ourselves' was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction so we know going in that this novel about family, siblings and psychology will be both good and clever—which it is. It's also charming, uncomfortable and twisty.