We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

This is the story of an American family....an ordinary family in every way but one...but I won't say how the family is different and be a spoiler. (Although I knew when I started the book.)

Here is a quote from the author of The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini:

"I thought this was a gripping, big-hearted book . . . through the tender voice of her protagonist, Fowler has a lot to say about family, memory, language, science, and indeed the question of what constitutes a human being."

The Cooke family: Mom and Dad, brother Lowell  and sisters Fern and the narrator, Rosemary form this family that is broken up and separated when Rosemary is just five years old.  Her journey is told in this gripping story...a book I could not put down. It's full of truths about humans, our connections to animals, about humanity in general.

Read it. You will fall in love with Fern and even Lowell, once you understand where his anger is coming from.