Where'd You Go Bernadette
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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 shes a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle shes a disgrace; to design mavens shes 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 Bernadettes 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 daughters role in an absurd world.
