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Bernadette Fox has vanished. When her daughter Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, Bernadette, a fiercely intelligent shut-in, throws herself into preparations for the trip. But worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted, Ms. Fox is on the brink of a meltdown. And after a school fundraiser goes disastrously awry at her hands, she disappears, leaving her family to pick up the pieces--which is exactly what Bee does, weaving together an elaborate web of emails, invoices, and school memos that reveals a secret past Bernadette has been hiding for decades. Where'd You Go Bernadette is an ingenious and unabashedly entertaining novel about a family coming to terms with who they are and the power of a daughter's love for her mother.
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple
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- Released
- 2012
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Maria Semple
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 330
- ISBN10
- 0316204277
- ISBN13
- 9780316204279
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Humor, Family, Contemporary Fiction, Friendship, USA, Relationships, Secrets, Literary Fiction, Fear, Journey, Psychological novels, Family relationships, Letters, Mothers, Search, New Beginning, Disappearance, Mothers and Daughters, Antarctica, Seattle, Agoraphobia
- First published
- 2012
- Original title
- Where´d You Go, Bernadette
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- Bernadette Fox has vanished. When her daughter Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, Bernadette, a fiercely intelligent shut-in, throws herself into preparations for the trip. But worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted, Ms. Fox is on the brink of a meltdown. And after a school fundraiser goes disastrously awry at her hands, she disappears, leaving her family to pick up the pieces--which is exactly what Bee does, weaving together an elaborate web of emails, invoices, and school memos that reveals a secret past Bernadette has been hiding for decades. Where'd You Go Bernadette is an ingenious and unabashedly entertaining novel about a family coming to terms with who they are and the power of a daughter's love for her mother.