Karen Joy Fowler Discusses her Writing Inspiration

KFBookKaren Joy Fowler recently discussed, We are all Completely Beside Ourselves, with The National. Her novel, which just won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, is an idea she has been working on since the millennium. She explained how her writing, although fiction, has basis in situations she has experienced. In, We are all Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler draws on her childhood in the rat labs where her dad, an animal behaviorist, studied rat learning processes.

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