title :: Where'd You Go, Bernadette?
author :: Maria Semple
summary from goodreads :: 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. [goodreads]
my thoughts :: This story is told by Bee and through a compilation of e-mails, notes, documents, and various other forms of communication. At first it was a little tough to keep up with the different changing voices -- but once all of the characters were established it was much easier. Bernadette appealed to me as a character because she's similar to a lot of the highly intelligent but not so-good-with-people characters I love [Bones, Dr. Spencer Reid, etc..] -- she's struggling in Seattle where all of the people have always lived there [having moved to a small town in high school -- I can totally relate to her struggles]. I also really adored Bee's character -- she was tenacious and definitely not one to be told "no" there were times that my heart broke for her and times that I was just as excited as she was. I quite honestly could not put this one down!
would I recommend this book? :: absolutely -- I actually read it more on a suggestion than because it was on the NYT Best Sellers list. I would recommend this book for anyone who enjoys satire and a good little mystery.
would I recommend this book? :: absolutely -- I actually read it more on a suggestion than because it was on the NYT Best Sellers list. I would recommend this book for anyone who enjoys satire and a good little mystery.
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