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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 (NY Times). "There's a lot to like in Semple's charming novel, including the vivacious humour and the lesson that when creative forces like Bernadette stop creating, they become 'a menace to society.' Even more appealing is the mutually adoring mother-daughter relationship at its warm heart." - Heller McAlpin, NPRBernadette 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 document

Who reads Where'd You Go, Bernadette?

Author

Maria Semple

Publisher

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780297867319

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction

Rating

3.9 / 5 (6,565 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14