We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

by Karen Joy Fowler

sedulously

As this is the only word that felt to me chosen to impress the reader with the author's vocabulary, I think there must be a shade of meaning that makes sedulous a better choice than diligent.

“I’m seeing so much of America today,”

Catchphrase for times when things aren't going to your liking

leporine.

Of or resembling hares. It works where it's used.

I’m unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.

Questions of the humanity of animals, the animalness of humans and which is greater, are central to a story about the concentric circles we use to define who is, and isn't, family.