Where'd you go, Bernadette : a novel / Maria Semple.
When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the Earth to find her. Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she is a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she is a disgrace; to design mavens, she is 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 e-mail messages, official documents, secret correspondence, creating a touching novel about a family coming to terms with who they are, and the power of a daughter's love for her imperfect mother.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316204262
- ISBN: 0316204269
- ISBN: 9780316204279
- ISBN: 0316204277
- ISBN: 9780316415866
- ISBN: 0316415863
- Physical Description: 330 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: 1st edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2012.
Content descriptions
| Target Audience Note: | HL820L Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.4 13 161015. |
| Awards Note: | Alex Award winner, 2013. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Missing persons > Fiction. Phobias > Fiction. Mothers and daughters > Fiction. Seattle (Wash.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Humorous fiction. Novels. |
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- 38 of 40 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 15 of 15 copies available at Iredell County Public Library.
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