TY  - BOOK
AU  - Semple,Maria
TI  - Where'd you go, Bernadette: a novel 
SN  - 9780316415859 (pbk)
AV  - PS3619.E495 W54 2012
U1  - 813.6 Se54 2019 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York, NY, USA : 	
PB  - Little, Brown and Company
KW  - Women architects
KW  - Washington (State)
KW  - Seattle
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Missing persons
KW  - Phobias
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Antarctica
KW  - Seattle (Wash.) -- Fiction
N1  - Includes Reading Group Guide (7 pages) and excerpt from Today Will Be Different (15 pages); JHS
N2  - 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
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