Where'd you go, Bernadette
By: Maria Semple
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9781471354311; 9781471354328
Subjects: Women architects; Fiction; Missing persons; Phobias; Mothers and daughters; Femmes architectes; Romans, nouvelles; Personnes disparues; Phobies; Mères et filles
Description: "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."--Amazon.com.
Notes: Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2012.