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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette Hardcover - 2012

by Maria Semple

To her Microsoft-guru husband, Bernadette'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 her 15-year-old, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears.


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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 Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little Brown and Company, New York, NY
  • Date 2012-08-14
  • ISBN 9780316204279 / 0316204277
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.6 x 1.3 in (23.62 x 16.76 x 3.30 cm)
  • Reading level 820
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Dixon
    • Holiday: Mother's Day
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011040639
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 07/01/2012, Page 25
  • Entertainment Weekly, 12/28/2012, Page 102
  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/01/2012, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 07/01/2012, Page 78
  • People Weekly, 12/31/2012, Page 48
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/14/2012, Page 39
  • Shelf Awareness, 08/17/2012, Page 0

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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