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Where’d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple

2/11/2015

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Bernadette Fox doesn’t like people.  Any people, except her daughter Bee, her Microsoft-bigwig husband, and her Indian virtual assistant.  She also doesn’t like having to leave her house, hence the virtual assistant. So when Bee requests a trip to Antarctica as her eighth-grade graduation present, Bernadette is more than a little concerned about her ability to actually take this trip.  But she puts on a brave face and sets her assistant to ordering new Antarctica-ready clothing, buying the plane and boat tickets, and getting their IDs and passports in order, while Bernadette takes credit and works on just getting through her everyday life as the least-liked mother at Bee’s Galer Street School.

Throughout the emails and letters that make up this book, we learn about the very strange series of events leading up to this trip to Antarctica, including arguments between Bernadette and a fellow school mom and neighbor called Audrey that culminate in an amazing scene involving a hillside recently stripped of its blackberry bushes, an eight-foot by five-foot sign insulting the Galer Street moms, and some heavy rain.  On the other hand, a lack of communication between Bernadette and her husband leads to a scene in which an intervention is interrupted by an FBI investigation.  The whole book has this absurdist tone, reminiscent of TV shows like Arrested Development (which the author worked on), so if you like that sort of thing you should definitely pick up this book.

--Alison McCarty, Callahan Branch Library

Find Where'd You Go, Bernadette in the Nassau County Public Library System catalog.


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