Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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- 25,99 €
Publisher Description
Bernadette Fox is notorious.
To Elgie Branch, a Microsoft wunderkind, she's his hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled wife.
To fellow mothers at the school gate, she's a menace.
To design experts, she's a revolutionary architect.
And to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, quite simply, mum.
Then Bernadette disappears. And Bee must take a trip to the end of the earth to find her.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette is a compulsively readable, irresistibly written, deeply touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's place in the world.
(p) 2012 Hachette Audio
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
There’s genuine affection and tenderness underneath the madcap twists and cheeky humor of Maria Semple’s breakthrough novel Where’d You Go, Bernadette?. The tragi-comic tale follows teenager Bee Branch’s quest to find her troubled mother—who has disappeared without a trace. The novel is structured as a sort of dossier of emails and everyday documents, but Gilmore Girls actress Kathleen Wilhoite does a great job evoking Bee’s earnest, bewildered voice even when she’s reading things like a mysterious ER bill. Semple’s sharp-elbowed jabs at Seattle tech culture and suburban mummy wars provide plenty of laughs.
