Bernadette Fox is notorious.
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..
A trip to the end of the earth is problematic.
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.
It all began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica.
Then Bernadette vanishes.
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.
Bernadette Fox is notorious.
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 ( New York Times ).
Bee compiles e-mail messages, official documents, and secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel.
Then Bernadette disappears.
To her husband, she\'s a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow mothers in Seattle, she\'s a disgrace; and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a friend and mom.
Bernadette Fox is notorious
