Where'd You Go, Bernadette -- Maria Semple

<b>A 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 (<i>New York Times</i>).</b> <p/> 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. <p/> 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. <p/> 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.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Maria Semple<br><b>Publisher:</b> Little Brown and Company<br><b>Published:</b> 08/14/2012<br><b>Pages:</b> 336<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Hardcover<br><b>Weight:</b> 1.50lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 9.30h x 6.60w x 1.30d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780316204279<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 5.4<br><b>Point Value:</b> 13<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Q