Where'd You Go, Bernadette
A Novel
by Maria Semple
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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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Women architects--Washington (State)--Seattle--Fiction., Missing persons--Fiction., Phobias--Fiction., Mothers and daughters--Fiction., Domestic fiction., Missing persons, fiction, Seattle (wash.), fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Antarctica, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, Missing persons, Women architects, Phobias, Mothers and daughters, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2012-09-09, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, family life, general, Domestic fiction, Femmes architectes, Romans, nouvelles, Personnes disparues, Phobies, Mères et filles, Roman familial, Women architects--washington (state)--seattle--fiction., Missing persons--fiction., Phobias--fiction., Mothers and daughters--fiction., Nyt:hardcover-fiction=2012-09-09, New york times bestseller, New york times reviewedPlaces
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel
Jan 29, 2019, Little, Brown and Company
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel
2013, Back Bay Books
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
2012, little, Brown and Company
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in English
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