*soon To Be A Major Motion Picture Starring Cate Blanchett* A Whip-smart, Hysterical Dramedy About A Family In Crisis After The Disappearance Of Its Brilliant, Misanthropic Matriarch. 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...
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*soon To Be A Major Motion Picture Starring Cate Blanchett* A Whip-smart, Hysterical Dramedy About A Family In Crisis After The Disappearance Of Its Brilliant, Misanthropic Matriarch. 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.
