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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 (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.

Who reads Where'd You Go, Bernadette : A Novel?

Author

Maria Semple

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316415859

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.9 / 5 (222,566 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13