Where'd you go, Bernadette : a novel / Maria Semple.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316204279
- ISBN: 0316204277
- ISBN: 9780316204262
- ISBN: 0316204269
- ISBN: 9780316415866
- ISBN: 0316415863
- Physical Description: 330 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2012.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the Earth to find her. Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she is a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she is a disgrace; to design mavens, she is a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears. |
Awards Note: | Alex Award winner, 2013. |
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Genre: | Domestic fiction. Humorous fiction. Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 44 of 47 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 2 current holds with 47 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Ansonia Public Library | FIC SEMPLE, MARIA (Text) | 34045107267259 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Beacon Falls Public Library | FIC SEM (Text) | 33120000348406 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Beardsley & Memorial Library - Winsted | FIC SEMPLE (Text) | 33750000036786 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | YOUNG ADULT SEMPLE, M. (Text) | 32544072277659 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | FIC Sem (Text) | 33160124354906 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | SEMPLE (Text) | 34030125572948 | Adult Fiction | On holds shelf | - |
Bethel Public Library | SEMPLE (Text) | 34030144191019 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | AF SEM (Text) | 33260000127952 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | FIC SEM (Text) | 34014150094937 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Derby Neck Library | FIC SEM (Text) | 34046126366585 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette : A Novel
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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.