Where'd You Go, Bernadette
About this book
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 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 email messages, official documents, secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.
Subjects
- antarctica, fiction
- domestic fiction
- domestic fiction.
- femmes architectes
- fiction
- fiction, family life
- fiction, family life, general
- mères et filles
- missing persons
- missing persons, fiction
- missing persons--fiction.
- mothers and daughters
- mothers and daughters, fiction
- mothers and daughters--fiction.
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nyt:hardcover-fiction=2012-09-09
- personnes disparues
- phobias
- phobias--fiction.
- phobies
- roman familial
- romans, nouvelles
- seattle (wash.), fiction
- women architects
- women architects--washington (state)--seattle--fiction.