Where'd You Go, Bernadette

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Published Jan. 1, 2012

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978-0-316-20427-9
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette is a 2012 epistolary comedy novel written by Maria Semple. The plot revolves around an agoraphobic architect and mother named Bernadette Fox, who goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica. It is narrated by her 15-year-old daughter Bee Branch, and is told in a series of documents (emails, memos, transcripts, etc.) with the occasional interlude by Bee.

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infinitely enjoyable. i was hooked by page 12 with the chatty yet passive aggressive emails, the forced-enthusiam newsletters, and the pointless school memos. what a great plot device/thread. what a great story being told between the lines. and as the minions lines up behind the queen bee type-A mom, the satisfaction only grows when her world -literally - crumbles and she gets her well deserved come uppence.
but then a surprising thing happened - people learned from their mistakes, people grew and matured and changed. even (gasp)the queen bee. and suddenly this light satire has something serious to say as well.

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