What is normal anymore? I was impressed with Rosemary and the thoughts that run through her head, the way she sees her family, the way she sees herself and how she compares that to other families and other people.

She seems to have been very close to her sister but that was so long ago she does not quite seem to trust memory for factual events - and getting deeper, is anything real or is it all just different perspectives stored away into brain cells that are real only to the user of those brain cells?

Her family seems relatively normal until the big reveal a third of the way into the book. The last third of the book deals heavily with animal cruelty specifically in the area of scientific research and testing.

The shift from family narrative to a very real animal protection issue is reasonably subtle but the shift does make me feel like I've started reading a different book than the one I had started.

Well written. While this is a first person perspective on a completely fictional character and her completely fictional family, I found myself wondering if this was a biography - it was written so well that question had to pop up - is this real?