Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Where'd You Go, Bernadette - Paperback

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Where'd You Go, Bernadette - Paperback

Where'd You Go, Bernadette - Paperback

by Maria Semple
$19.99
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by Maria Semple (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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.

Number of Pages: 330
Dimensions: 1.2 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: April 02, 2013
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 5.4
Point Value: 13
ISBN9780316204262
Author Maria Semple
PublisherBack Bay Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2013
LanguageENG- English
Pages330
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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