Where'd You Go, Bernadette : A Novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0373895461
- ISBN: 9780373895465
- ISBN: 0316204277
- ISBN: 9780316204279
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Physical Description:
330 pages ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2012.
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- Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 2 / 5.0
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General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.4 13 161015. |
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Subject: | Antarctica Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Phobias Fiction Missing persons Fiction Women architects Washington (State) Seattle Fiction |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Humorous fiction. |
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Summary
Where'd You Go, Bernadette : A Novel
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.