Where'd You Go, Bernadette A Novel

A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears. Bernadette Fox is notorious: a fearlessly opinionated partner to her Microsoft-guru husband, a disgrace to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, a revolutionary architect, and best friend to her 15-year-old daughter, Bee. 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 has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands, making the trip problematic. When Bernadette vanishes, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, and secret correspondence to find her, revealing 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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