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Where'd you go, Bernadette : a novel / Maria Semple.

Where did you go, Bernadette (other title)

Summary:

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: 9780316204262
ISBN: 0316204269
ISBN: 9780316204279
ISBN: 9780606317221
ISBN: 0606317228
Physical Description: 330 pages, 7 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: First Back Bay edition
Publisher: New York : Back Bay Books, 2013.
Copyright: ©2012

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally published in hardcover in 2012. Reprinted in paperback in 2013 with a reading group guide.
Target Audience Note:	HL820L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.4 13 161015.
Language Note:	Text in English.