AUGUST 11th to AUGUST 25th, 2012
WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE
by MARIA SEMPLE
SYNOPSIS:
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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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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I hope she’s in Hawaii eating shave ice.
I think she’s in New Zealand.
Jamaica
I think she is at home and no one thought to look for her there. She has become invisible to them.
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Gosh! It’s hard to say! Maybe she’s looking for her virtual assistant in India.
She’s feeling too overwhelmed so she’s gone off to retreat somewhere where she feels safe. Maybe a safe room contained within their house.
The South Pole???
She went to Vancouver Is.
What an intriguing and fascinating book…it also sounds sweet.
As for where Bernadette is I’m going to guess she checked herself into a psychiatric institution to try to get help with curing her agoraphobia so she can travel to Antarctica with her family!
She must be somewhere she can lay low and not be noticed. I guess we have to read the book to find out where she is!
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I think she took off and went some where to be by herself for awhile, maybe to work on her agoraphobia. I would love to read the book to find out. Thanks for having the giveaway.
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Since she hates Seattle, she probably went somewhere where it’s sunny all the time, somewhere tropical
I think she is hiding somewhere in Redmond WA.
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I think she’s hiding in the basement.
IOIL have no idea where she is! Maybe somewhere warm and sunny, but would she leave her daughter?
She’s somewhere calming like a small island in the Pacific.
I am guessing she may have gone off to a deserted island to get away from everything and everyone.
I have no idea! What a fun read! Maybe Australia!
I think she went to Antarctica by herself.
I think she’s in her bedroom
Probably somewhere in her own house. The attic?
she sounds pretty wacky and irresponsible, probably with a friend or an asylum
Kauai?
Alaska
FROM READING THE SYNOPSIS, WHERE DO YOU THINK BERNADETTE IS?
I think she’s in the basement.
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She is in St Thomas on the beach (I know that’s where I would want to be)
Antarctica
i think she went to the bahamas!
Bernadette is living on the Outer Banks of North Carolina where you can run free.
I think she maybe in Anartica.