Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

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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... read more

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Balakrishna 'Bee' Branch: Bernadette's daughter
Bernadette Fox: Bee's mother, Bernadette was an architect with two amazing houses to her resume - and that's it.
Elgin 'Elgie' Branch: Bee's dad, he works for Microsoft
Audrey Griffith: One of the Galer Street gnats
Soo-Lin Lee-Segal: Galer Street parent, mother of Lincoln and Alexandra, an admin who comes to work for Elgie
Kennedy: Bee's best friend
Kyle Griffith: Audrey's son, a troubled youth
Sarah Wyatt: Bee's snobby roommate at Choate
Paul Jelinek: An old friend from Bernadette's architect days
Ollie-O: Parent at Galer Street, at the same time enthusiastic about fundraising and bordering on the obnoxious
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“"...white phlegm is dead germs. Ask a real doctor and not some office administrator whose only justification for calling herself a nurse isn't nursing school but a box of Band-Aids she keeps in her desk."”
Bee

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The first annoying thing is when I ask Dad what he thinks happened to Mom, he always say, "What's most important is for you to understand it's not your fault."

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Maria Semple (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Country: United States
Publication Date: June 7, 2012
ISBN: 0297867288
Page Count: 352

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Women's Prize for Fiction (Finalist, 2013, Longlist)

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Books › Literature & Fiction › Women's Fiction › Single Women
Books › Literature & Fiction › Women's Fiction › Domestic Life
Books › Literature & Fiction › Comic

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