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

By: New York, NY, USA : Little, Brown and Company, ©2019Edition: First Little Brown media tie-in mass market paperback editionDescription: 354, 14 pages ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 9780316415859 (pbk)
Other title:
  • Where did you go, Bernadette?
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.6 Se54 2019 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3619.E495 W54 2012
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
Fiction Fiction High School Library Fiction Section GC Fic 813.6 Se54 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available JHS000182

Includes Reading Group Guide (7 pages) and excerpt from Today Will Be Different (15 pages).

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.

Junior High School

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