Where'd you go, Bernadette / Maria Semple

By:

Semple, Maria [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Phoenix, 2013Edition: Paperback editionDescription: 332 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781780221243

Subject(s):

Women architects -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Fiction

Genre/Form:

Domestic fiction

DDC classification:

813.6

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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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Sta. Lucia Branch Reference Section	Women’s Collection	WC 813.6 Se473w 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	133154d

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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