{"product_id":"whered-you-go-bernadette-9780316204262","title":"Where'd You Go, Bernadette","description":"\u003cb\u003eA misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this \"whip-smart and divinely funny\" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 her best friend and, simply, Mom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Then Bernadette vanishes. It all 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, and secret correspondence -- creating a compulsively readable and surprisingly touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaria Semple\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThis One Is Mine\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eToday Will Be Different\u003c\/i\u003e. Before turning to fiction, she wrote for \u003ci\u003eMad About You\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEllen\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eArrested Development\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker. She lives in Seattle.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50590700175634,"sku":"9780316204262","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7a90241b-49c4-4ec4-9b4d-af19ff169b1f.jpg?v=1764754785","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/whered-you-go-bernadette-9780316204262","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}