Where'd you go Bernadette is a novel by Maria Semple. It is about a woman who is having trouble at home with her husband. She is also having trouble with other mothers in her neighborhood. To the other mothers she is a disappointment. She has a fifteen year old daughter, Bee. Bernadette decides that life at home is too difficult and she disappears before Christmas. Bee decides to look for her mother and along the way writes a book with the clues to finding her mother.
Reviews
-"The characters in
Where'd You Go, Bernadette may be in real emotional pain, but Semple has the wit and perspective and imagination to make their story hilarious. I tore through this book with heedless pleasure." (- Jonathan Franzen, author of
Freedom )
Brilliant, hilarious, endlessly inventive, and compulsively readable,
Where'd You Go, Bernadette grabs you by the collar and never lets go. Semple is not only a masterful juggler, and an astute social critic, she is a magician!" (Jonathan Evison, author of
West of Here )
A delightfully funny book, that constantly catches one by surprise,
Where'd You Go, Bernadette combines a shrewdly observed portrait of Seattle-life with, of all things, a mysterious disappearance in Antarctica. A pleasure." (Matthew Kneale, author of
When We Were Romans )
"
Where'd You Go, Bernadette is fresh and funny and accomplished, but the best thing about it was that I never had any idea what was going to happen next. It was a wild ride..." (Kate Atkinson, author of
Case Histories and
Started Early, Took My Dog )
