Edition |
First Little Brown media tie-in mass market paperback edition. |
Description |
354, 14 pages ; 18 cm |
Summary |
When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the Earth to find her. Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she is a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she is a disgrace; to design mavens, she is 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 e-mail messages, official documents, secret correspondence, creating a touching novel about a family coming to terms with who they are, and the power of a daughter's love for her imperfect mother. |
Subject |
Women architects -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Fiction.
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Missing persons -- Fiction.
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Phobias -- Fiction.
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Antarctica -- Fiction.
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Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Seattle (Wash.) -- Fiction.
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Missing persons. (OCoLC)fst01023702
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Mothers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst01026997
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Phobias. (OCoLC)fst01061189
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Women architects. (OCoLC)fst01177137
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Antarctica. (OCoLC)fst01239992
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Washington (State) -- Seattle.
(OCoLC)fst01204940
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Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Humorous fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726649
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Domestic fiction.
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Humorous fiction.
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Added Title |
Where did you go, Bernadette? |
ISBN |
9780316415859 |
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0316415855 |
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