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Bernadette Fox is notorious To her Microsoft-guru husband shes a fearlessly opinionated partner to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle shes a disgrace to design mavens shes a revolutionary architect and to -year-old Bee she is a best friend and simply MomThen Bernadette disappears It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward a family trip to Antarctica But Bernadettes 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 problematicTo 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 daughters role in an absurd world.
About the Author
Maria Semple is the author of THIS ONE IS MINE, WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE and TODAY WILL BE DIFFERENT. Her work has been translated into over twenty-five languages. Before turning to fiction, she wrote for the television shows Arrested Development, Ellen and Mad About You. She lives in Seattle.
