Bernadette Fox is torious. 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 w 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 vel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
ISBN-10
1478978945
ISBN-13
9781478978947
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189664515
Product Key Features
Author
Maria Semple
Format
CD-Audio, CD Standard Audio Format
Language
English
Subject
General & Literary Fiction
Additional Product Features
Running Time
570
Read by
Kathleen Wilhoite
Author Biography
Maria Semple's first novel, This One is Mine, was set in Los Angeles, where she also wrote for television shows including Arrested Development,Mad About You, and Ellen. She escaped from Los Angeles and lives with her family in Seattle, where her second novel takes place.