Where'd You Go, Bernadette?
by Maria Semple
(352 pages)
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 a best friend and, simply,
Mom.
Then Bernadette disappears. It 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, secret correspondence--creating a compulsively
readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.
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