Where'd you go, Bernadette : a novel / Maria Semple.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316204262
- ISBN: 0316204269
- ISBN: 9780316204262
- ISBN: 0316204269
- ISBN: 9780316204279
- ISBN: 9780606317221
- ISBN: 0606317228
- Physical Description: 330 pages, 7 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Back Bay edition
- Publisher: New York : Back Bay Books, 2013.
- Copyright: ©2012
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Originally published in hardcover in 2012. Reprinted in paperback in 2013 with a reading group guide.
- Target Audience Note:
- HL820L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.4 13 161015.
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
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- Subject:
- Women architects > Washington (State) > Seattle > Fiction.
Missing persons > Fiction.
Phobias > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Antarctica > Fiction.
Seattle (Wash.) > Fiction. - Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
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- 70 of 75 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 75 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | FIC SEM (Text) | 37810435068704 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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