Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780316204279)

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.

Author: Maria Semple
ISBN-10: 0316204277
ISBN-13: 9780316204279
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Language: English
Published: 08/14/2012
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.60w x 1.30d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.4
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 161015 / Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Award: Alex Awards - Winner
Award: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/15/2012 pg. 91
Publishers Weekly 05/14/2012 pg. 39
People Weekly 06/25/2012 pg. 53
Library Journal 07/01/2012 pg. 78
Booklist 07/01/2012 pg. 25
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2012
Entertainment Weekly 08/17/2012 pg. 117
Shelf Awareness 08/17/2012
Entertainment Weekly 12/28/2012 pg. 102
People Weekly 12/31/2012 pg. 48