# Where'd You Go, Bernadette - Hardcover

by **Maria Semple** (Author)

**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.

### Author Biography

**Maria Semple** is the author of _This One Is Mine_ and _Today Will Be Different_. Before turning to fiction, she wrote for _Mad About You_, _Ellen_, and _Arrested Development_. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker. She lives in Seattle.

**Number of Pages:** 336

**Dimensions:** 1.3 x 9.3 x 6.6 IN

**Publication Date:** August 14, 2012

**Award:** Alex Awards (2013)

**Award:** Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2013)

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Where'd You Go, Bernadette

**Interest Level:** Upper Grades, 9-12

**Reading Level:** 5.4

**Point Value:** 13

## Details

- **Price:** 39.0 USD
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