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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
A General Fiction Novel by Maria Semple
Subgenres:
- Epistolary,
- Family Saga,
- Humorous Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Epistolary novels told through emails, documents, and secret notes
- Quirky mother-daughter dynamics with a missing matriarch
- Satirical takes on Seattle's elite and private school culture
From Little Stack
I enjoy a good epistolary novel, and this one told through emails, notes, FBI documents, bills, and other messages kept me entertained.
It follows the story of Bernadette, a brilliant architect who has never quite fit in with Seattle’s elite private school community. After one hilarious mishap too many, Bernadette disappears, and it’s left to her 15-year-old daughter, Bee, to follow the paper trail and find her.
You’ll be laughing and guessing along the way in this quirky mother-daughter tale that became a 2019 film starring Cate Blanchett.
A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett.
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.
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