WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES
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.