Where'd you go Bernadette – If you loved a book
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.
About the Author
Maria Semple wrote for the television shows Arrested Development, Ellen and Mad About You. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The Los Angeles Times. She lives in Seattle.
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My rating: 4 stars. Have you read this book? What did you think? If not, what book would you recommend?
I’m in the minority here. I know most people loved this book, but I didn’t care for it at all. I actually couldn’t stand Bernadette. The only thing I liked about the book was that it took place in Seattle, a city I loved and used to live in.
I really enjoyed this book! I read it very quickly and loved it.