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From the New York Times-best-selling author of The Jane Austen Reserve Club, the story of an American family, middle class in middle America, common in every way but one. But that exception is the defeating heart of the extraordinary book. Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, sibling Lowell, sister Fern, and our narrator, Rosemary, who commences her story in the middle. She has her reasons. "I spent the first eighteen years of my life identified by this one fact: that we grew up with a chimpanzee," she tells us. "It's never going to be the vital thing I share with someone. I let you know Fern was a chimp and already you aren't thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern's expulsion, I'd scarcely known a moment by itself. She was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half, and I liked her as a sister." Rosemary was not yet six when Fern was removed. Over time, she's were able to block a great deal of memories. She's smart, prone, innocent, and culpable. With some guile, she books us through the darkness, penetrating secrets and unearthing memories, leading us deeper in to the mystery she has dangled before us from the start. Stripping off the protective masks which may have concealed truths too painful to acknowledge, in the end, "Rosemary" truly is made for remembrance.
