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.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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Author: Semple, Maria
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 9780316333603
Details:
Author: Semple, Maria
Brand: Little, Brown and Company
Edition: Reissue
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Pages: 368
Release Date: 26-08-2014
Part Number: 0316333603_used
Package Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9780316333603
