Whered You Go, Bernadette
by Semple, Maria
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- Hardcover
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- Used; Good
- ISBN 10
- 0316204277
- ISBN 13
- 9780316204279
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On Apr 19 2014, CloggieDownunder said:
Where’d You Go, Bernadette? is the second novel by American author and TV writer, Maria Semple. When Bernadette Fox disappears two days before Christmas and a scheduled family trip to Antarctica, her fifteen-year-old daughter, Bee is determined to track her down. She is sure that her dad, Microsoft guru Elgin Branch, knows more than he’s letting on. And she’s convinced that the shouting match with another school-mom, Audrey Griffiths, was the trigger for the disappearance. Bee’s narration of events is interspersed with emails, notes, a school report, letters, bills, blog posts, announcements, journal articles, a poem, an audio transcript and several faxes, each in a different font and format, and all of which fill in the background facts on incidents and characters. Thus the reader learns about Bernadette’s decline from celebrated young architect to socially anxious semi-recluse, Bee’s precarious early childhood and Elgin’s rise to MS fame, as well as what led to Bernadette’s flight and why the FBI got involved. Semple’s characters develop, and not always in an expected manner: one surprisingly discovers a conscience; another disappointingly gives in to temptation; another metamorphoses, perhaps predictably, from small and benign to large and threatening. They are characters that are familiar from everyday life: the fawning admin, the venomous school mom, the hard-working father, the text-book psychiatrist, the excruciatingly enthusiastic fund-raiser. As Bee trails her mom to the ends of the earth, the full gamut of reactions to loss is depicted. This is a hilarious book that nonetheless touches on some topical issues including work/life balance, trust, identity theft, post-traumatic stress and the best way to remove blackberry bushes. Readers may find some parts bring a lump to the throat, but will spend most of this clever novel laughing out loud.
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- Bookseller
- Greener Books Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1815430
- Title
- Whered You Go, Bernadette
- Author
- Semple, Maria
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used; Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0316204277
- ISBN 13
- 9780316204279
- Publisher
- Little Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny
- Date Published
- 08/14/2012
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