Where'd you go, Bernadette : a novel
Available Copies by Location
Location | |
---|---|
Community Centre | Available |
Victoria | Available |
Other Formats
Browse Related Items
Subject |
Women architects > Fiction. Missing persons > Fiction. Phobias > Fiction. Mothers and daughters > Fiction. Antarctica > Fiction. |
Genre |
Domestic fiction. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 0316204277
- ISBN: 9780316204279
- Physical Description 330 pages
- Edition 1st ed.
- Publisher New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2012.
Content descriptions
General Note: | 2013 Alex Award winner |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 28.99 |
Additional Information
Where'd You Go, Bernadette : A Novel
Click an element below to view details:
Summary
Where'd You Go, Bernadette : A Novel
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 ). 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 her best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette vanishes. It all 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, 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.