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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 08/14/2012
ISBN: 9780316204279
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.20d
Award: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Finalist
Award: Alex Awards - Winner

Review Citations: Library Journal 03/15/2012 pg. 91
Publishers Weekly 05/14/2012 pg. 39
People Weekly 06/25/2012 pg. 53
Library Journal 07/01/2012 pg. 78
Booklist 07/01/2012 pg. 25
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2012
Entertainment Weekly 08/17/2012 pg. 117
Shelf Awareness 08/17/2012
Entertainment Weekly 12/28/2012 pg. 102
People Weekly 12/31/2012 pg. 48

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 161015 / Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Reading Level: 5.4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 13