On My Wishlist is a weekly event highlighting a book that I really want to read. The book may be 20 years old, or the pub date may not be until next year, but either way I'm excited about it, and hopefully you will be too!
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Hardcover
330 pages
330 pages
Synopsis from Goodreads
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 a best friend and, simply, Mom.
Then Bernadette disappears. It
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, secret correspondence—creating a
compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother
and daughter's role in an absurd world.
So, what do you think? Is it one that you'd like to add to your wish list? Have you already read it?
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