Book sixteen: We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

Loved this book but I can't write anything about it without giving away the big secret that makes this book so fantastically awesome. I do have a couple quotes that I noted while reading...

"In most families, there is a favorite child. Parents deny it and maybe they truly don't see it, but it's obvious to the children. Unfairness bothers children greatly. It's hard to always come in second." (pg 52)

"The only way to make any sense of the United States Congress, our father told me once, is to view it as a two-hundred-year-long primate study. He didn't live to see the ongoing revolution in our thinking regarding nonhuman animal cognition.  But he wasn't wrong about Congress." (pg 92)

"The world runs...on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don't mind what they don't see. Make them look and they mind, but you're the one they hate, because you're the one that made them look." (pg 232)

"Children roughhoused until someone got hurt; it was the way families worked. Mothers, having warned everyone that this was what would happen, were generally more irritated than concerned." (pg 252) [So true, right?] 

16 down plus 36 to go.