02478cam a2200445 i 4500 222099346 TxAuBib 20150101120000.0 120809t20132012||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780316204262 pbk. 0316204269 pbk. 9780606317221 0606317228 (OCoLC)806015802 TxAuBib rda Semple, Maria. Where'd You Go, Bernadette : A Novel / Maria Semple. Where Did You Go, Bernadette. First Back Bay paperback edition. New York : Back Bay Books, 2013. ©2012. 330, 7 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published in hardcover in 2012. Reprinted in paperback in 2013 with a reading group guide. 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. 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 e-mail messages, official documents, secret correspondence, creating a touching novel about a family coming to terms with who they are, and the power of a daughter's love for her imperfect mother. 20150101. Text in English. ORO: Gift of Sharon Fitzgerald. Women architects Washington (State) Seattle Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Phobias Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Domestic fiction. Antarctica Fiction. Seattle (Wash) Fiction. Seattle (Wash.) TXRHO