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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 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 email messages, official documents, secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world. Review "The characters in Where'd You Go, Bernadette may be in real emotional pain, but Semple has the wit and perspective and imagination to make their story hilarious. I tore through this book with heedless pleasure." ( - Jonathan Franzen, author of *Freedom * ) "Brilliant, hilarious, endlessly inventive, and compulsively readable, Where'd You Go, Ber

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Author

Semple, Maria

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316401593

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Family Sagas

Rating

3.9 / 5 (222,566 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14