Book Review: Where’d You Go Bernadette?

Where’d You Go Bernadette? by Maria Semple
Goodreads.com 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.

My Review: 5 out of 5 stars. I listened to this one via audiobook. I was hooked. The narrator, Kathleen Wilhoite, was amazing. She had voices for the characters that helped to transport me into this story. Go listen to this one!!! (Or read it!) 😉