52 Weeks 52 Books ~ WHERE'D YOU GO BERNADETTE ~ Week Ending August 12, 2013

"Witty, smart, and funny, sweet and tender, and even serious, WHERE'D YOU GO BERNADETTE makes fun of Seattle and Microsoft and private school moms, and is filled with family drama, neighbor drama and career drama.  Her characters are ultra intelligent and at once both unlikeable and loveable.  It's told in a refreshing style made up of emails, school reports, newspaper articles and and notes, and  I loved the humor and even the characters by the end of the novel. Easy to see why it's never on the library shelf!"  ~ Katherine

"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." ~ from the Publisher