Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Author | : Maria Semple |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2012-08-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780316204286 |
ISBN-13 | : 0316204285 |
Rating | : 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Download or read book Where'd You Go, Bernadette written by Maria Semple and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.