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Go Gentle, April 2026
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette, August 2012
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WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE
By: Maria Semple

Little, Brown and Company
August 2012
On Sale: August 14, 2012
336 pages
ISBN: 0316204277
EAN: 9780316204279
Kindle: B006L8942U
Hardcover / e-Book
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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.

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Morning Edition - August 24, 2012