She was last seen just before Christmas, and Bees. The story begins with the shocking fact that Bees mother, the funny, talented but somewhat volatile Bernadette, is missing. I particularly love the voice of the young narrator, Bee, the 14-year-old daughter of Bernadette. 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 daughter's role in an absurd world. Whered You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple is a real pleasure to read. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic. 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. Disclosure: If you buy products using the retailer buttons above, we may earn a commission from the retailers you visit. It all began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. 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 her best friend and, simply, Mom. 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).īernadette Fox is notorious.
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