Where'd You Go, Bernadette

A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this whip-smart and...
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Author: Maria Semple
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Semple, Maria

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

$70.08

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

$70.08
Author: Maria Semple
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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: Maria Semple
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 08/14/2012
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.60w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780316204279

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.4
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 161015 / Where'd You Go, Bernadette


Award: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Finalist
Award: Alex Awards - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/15/2012 pg. 91
Publishers Weekly 05/14/2012 pg. 39
People Weekly 06/25/2012 pg. 53
Library Journal 07/01/2012 pg. 78
Booklist 07/01/2012 pg. 25
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2012
Entertainment Weekly 08/17/2012 pg. 117
Shelf Awareness 08/17/2012
Entertainment Weekly 12/28/2012 pg. 102
People Weekly 12/31/2012 pg. 48

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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