Where'd you go, Bernadette : a novel / Maria Semple

By:

Semple, Maria [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014Edition: First Little, Brown and Company mass market editionDescription: 351 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780316333603

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Domestic fiction

DDC classification:

Summary: When fifteen-year-old Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, her fiercely intelligent but agoraphobic mother, Bernadette, throws herself into the preparations. Worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted, Bernadette is on the brink of a meltdown. As disaster follows disaster, she disappears, leaving the family to pick up the pieces. Which is exactly what Bee does, weaving together emails, invoices, and school memos to reveal the secret past that Bernadette has been hiding for decades.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Talipapa Branch Fiction Area	Fiction	Fic Se473w 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	126457d

When fifteen-year-old Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, her fiercely intelligent but agoraphobic mother, Bernadette, throws herself into the preparations. Worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted, Bernadette is on the brink of a meltdown. As disaster follows disaster, she disappears, leaving the family to pick up the pieces. Which is exactly what Bee does, weaving together emails, invoices, and school memos to reveal the secret past that Bernadette has been hiding for decades.

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