Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel by Maria Semple Paperback Book

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Rent Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel

Author: Maria Semple

Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: Apr 2013

Genre: Fiction - Humorous

Retail Price: $16.99

Pages: 352

Synopsis

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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