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Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Semple, Maria

Paperback

HumorGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 0316204269
ISBN13: 9780316204262
Publisher: Little, Brown Paperbacks
Published: Apr 2 2013
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this whip-smart and divinely funny novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times).

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect; and to 15-year-old Bee, she is her best friend and, simply, Mom.

Then Bernadette vanishes. It all began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle -- and people in general -- has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic.

To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, and secret correspondence -- creating a compulsively readable and surprisingly touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.

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