![]() ![]() The novel starts in the middle, goes to the end of the beginning, then the beginning of the end, and then ends with the beginning of the beginning and the end of the end.īefore meeting her brother for the first time in years, Rosemary thinks about the “theory of mind” which encompasses the number of embedded mental states one is capable of (science says five to seven, she thinks possibly infinite). Why was it hidden from us for 25 percent of the book? Because Fowler wants us to think of her as a sister like any other, and not a pet. Her sister, we soon find out is a chimpanzee. When she begins the novel, right in the middle, both her siblings have disappeared. Narrated by Rosemary Cooke, a girl who was brought up with a brother and sister, by parents who were psychologists. ![]() ![]() Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves broke my heart a thousand times over. ![]()
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The story doesn't switch between the perspectives of the twins, as I thought it might. By a somewhat unlikely coincidence they meet, for the first time, in their early twenties. They look identical, but have rather different personalities. ![]() Bizarrely, neither parent mentioned the existence of a twin to the child they raised. Rose and Flora are twins, separated at birth when their parents divorced, and decided to take one of them each. I last read 'Under Gemini' in 1999 so it was more than time for a re-read. How I love Rosamunde Pilcher's books! Both her longer sagas and her shorter, lighter romances have the most wonderful characters who get right under my skin, almost from the first chapter. ![]() ![]() ![]() When they finally crack part of Mom’s code, they learn the world they’ve visited-and the world where Mom is currently imprisoned-is an alternate reality. The kids return to Natalie’s house with Mom’s laptop. The Greystone siblings assure her she’s wrong. Morales is a private investigator who often spies on cheating husbands, so Natalie is sure there is some sort of relationship problem at the core of Mom’s disappearance. They also find secret rooms and passageways beyond Mom’s basement office that take them to a world they don’t recognize. They discover Mom’s phone and computers are still there, and they find a code on Mom’s laptop. The kids and Natalie make trips to the Greystone house to feed the cat every few days. ![]() They will stay with one of Mom’s PTA acquaintances, Ms. The next day, she tells the kids she’s leaving on a business trip and may be too busy to call them. Chess overhears Mom having a strange conversation at three in the morning with someone named Joe. The Greystone children are shocked to learn the missing kids, whose last name is Gustano, have the same first and middle names as each of them, as well as the same dates of birth. ![]() She’s watching a report about three kidnapped siblings in Arizona. The kids return from school one day to find Mom deeply troubled. ![]() Their dad died eight years earlier, and only Chess remembers him. Twelve-year-old Chess Greystone and his younger siblings, Emma and Finn, live with their mom in Ohio. ![]() |