Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm | 12,298 (27,685) | 851 | 1,643 | (3.5) | 14 | 0 | Karen Joy Fowler is the author of several novels and short story collections. Her works include Sarah Canary, The Sweetheart Season, Sister Noon, and The Jane Austen Book Club. She has received numerous awards including the World Fantasy Award in 1999 for Black Glass, the World Fantasy Award in 2011 for What I Didn't See, and the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. This same title was nominated for The Man Booker Prize for Best Novel in 2014. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Jane Austen Book Club … (more) |
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 Book Club for Adults, Every Third Thursday You’re cordially invited to attend our every third Thursday of the month Book Club for grown-ups. This month's book is We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. Moderated by longtime bookseller Michelle and events gal Suzanne, our book club is multi-generational, friendly, casually well read, and one of the best groups to talk about a book with we've ever met!
There's no need to register or RSVP. Just show up and join the lively discussion. As always, our club books will be discounted 10% every month. Additionally, if your book club buys 3 or more copies of one title, we’ll happily discount any and all other book club’s titles too!
Location: Street: Secret Garden Additional: 2214 NW Market St. City: Seattle, Province: Washington Postal Code: 98107-4024 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
 Karen Joy Fowler signs in San Diego Karen Joy Fowler signs Black Glass. Details to come. Location: Street: 5943 Balboa Avenue Additional: Ste 100 City: San Diego, Province: California Postal Code: 92111 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)
 KAREN JOY FOWLER in conversation with ANDREW SEAN GREER: Man Booker Prize 2014 Longlist Celebration Credit: Brett Hall Jones Karen Joy Fowler in conversation with Andrew Sean Greer Friday, September 26, 7:30 p.m. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves*Now we have even more to celebrate; Karen made it to the shortlist!! Join us for a celebration of Karen Joy Fowler's inclusion on the prestigious Man Booker Prize 2014 longlist! Historically, the Man Booker Prize promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. 2014 is the first year this prize has been opened to American Novelists.
Ebullient in tone, disturbing in material, and masquerading, at first, as a traditional family narrative, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves is the story of Rosemary. A relentlessly talkative child, as an adult, Rosemary has wrapped herself in silence. Something happened, something so awful she has buried it in the recesses of her mind. Now her adored older brother is a fugitive, wanted by the FBI for domestic terrorism. And her once lively mother is a shell of her former self, her clever and imperious father now a distant, brooding man. And Fern, Rosemary’s beloved sister, her accomplice in all their childhood mischief? Fern’s is a fate the family, in all their innocence, could never have imagined.
Karen Joy Fowler is the author of six novels and three short story collections. The Jane Austen Book Club spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel, Sister Noon, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Karen's writing has been praised by numerous literary superstars, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Chabon, and Alice Sebold.
Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of five works of fiction, including The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times has called an "inspired, lyrical novel," and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named a best book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. His latest novel is The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells.
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 INKWOOD'S 2nd Official Book Club! INKWOOD'S SUPER OFFICAL BOOK CLUB Thursday, August 28, 7 pm August book choice: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by KAREN JOY FOWLER (just recently longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize!) Everyone is welcome! We just ask that you purchase the book from Inkwood to participate. Thanks, and get reading! Location: Street: 216 S Armenia Ave City: Tampa, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33609-3310 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
 MAC'S BOOK CLUB Mac's Book Club will discuss We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler on Wednesday, May 21st at 7:30 p.m. “A novel so readably juicy and surreptitiously smart, it deserves all the attention it can get . . . Its fresh diction and madcap plot bend the tone toward comedy, but it never mislays its solemn raison d’être. Monkeyshines aside, this is a story of Everyfamily in which loss engraves relationships, truth is a soulful stalker and coming-of-age means facing down the mirror, recognizing the shape-shifting notion of self.”—Barbara Kingsolver, The New York Times Book Review
The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family, ordinary in every way but one. Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. “I was raised with a chimpanzee,” she explains. “I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren’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. In We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler weaves her most accomplished work to date—a tale of loving but fallible people whose well-intentioned actions lead to heartbreaking consequences.
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 Literary Sojour Author Study: We Are all Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler The Literary Sojourn Author Study is a series of book discussion programs designed to enhance the experience of reading for this year's Literary Sojourn. Participants read and discuss works from each of the featured authors prior to the live event. Bud Werner Memorial Library's Michelle Dover facilitates the free discussions and the study is limited to 12 participants per meeting. For more information about the Literary Sojourn Author Study, please contact Michelle at mdover@steamboatlibrary.org or (970) 879-0240, ext. 307.
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at 5:30pm
It's worth the trouble to avoid spoilers, including the ones on the back cover, for Fowler's marvelous new novel; let her introduce the troubled Cooke family before she springs the jaw-dropping surprise at the heart of the story. Learn more about the book...
Location: Street: Bud Werner Library City: Steamboat Springs, Province: Colorado Postal Code: 80487 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
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