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Where'd You Go, Bernadette Paperback - 2013

by Maria Semple

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a friend and mom. Then Bernadette disappears. Bee compiles e-mail messages, official documents, and secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel.


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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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  • Title Where'd You Go, Bernadette
  • Author Maria Semple
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 330
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Back Bay Books, New York, NY
  • Date 2013-04-02
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian
  • ISBN 9780316204262 / 0316204269
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.2 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 3.05 cm)
  • Reading level 820
  • Themes
    • Holiday: Mother's Day
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Entertainment Weekly, 03/21/2014, Page 67
  • New York Times Book Review, 05/12/2013, Page 40
  • People Weekly, 08/26/2013, Page 49

About the author

Maria Semple is the author of This One Is Mine and Today Will Be Different. Before turning to fiction, she wrote for Mad About You, Ellen, and Arrested Development. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker. She lives in Seattle.
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