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Author(s)\Editor(s): Semple, Maria – – 0Binding: HARD COVER BOOKSYearMonthDay of Publication: 20120814Standardized Book Category: Humorous – GeneralLanguage: \n \n EnglishPage Count: \n \n 00336Publisher Marketing: \n \n 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.
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