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Title Statement | Where'd you go, Bernadette: a novel / [book club set] : Maria Semple. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Where did you go, Bernadette |
Author | Semple, Maria |
Publication | New York: Back Bay Books,2013, c2012. |
Edition | First Back Bay paperback edition. |
Extent of Item | 330, 7 pages ; |
ISBN | 9780316204262 (pbk.) 0316204269 (pbk.) |
General Notes | **NO INFO PACKAGE** Originally published in hardcover in 2012. Reprinted in paperback in 2013 with a reading group guide. |
Summary | When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the Earth to find her. Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she is a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she is a disgrace; to design mavens, she is 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 e-mail messages, official documents, secret correspondence, creating a touching novel about a family coming to terms with who they are, and the power of a daughter's love for her imperfect mother. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Women architects--Fiction--Washington (State)--Seattle |
Missing persons--Fiction | |
Phobias--Fiction | |
Mothers and daughters--Fiction | |
By Location | Antarctica--Fiction |
Seattle (Wash.)--Fiction | |
By Genre | Domestic fiction |