Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

I didn't quite expect to love this book as much as I did, but it's one of my favorite books this year and I hope you'd give it a look, and perhaps review it, too.

WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE

By Maria Semple

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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 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 email messages, official documents, secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.

Find out more at Facebook.com/WheredYouGoBernadette or MariaSemple.com.

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