Where'd you go, Bernadette

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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 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"--Publisher information.

subjects: Missing persons, fiction,  Seattle (wash.), fiction,  Mothers and daughters, fiction,  Antarctica, fiction,  Fiction, family life,  Fiction,  Missing persons,  Women architects,  Phobias,  Mothers and daughters,  nyt:e-book-fiction=2012-09-02,  New York Times bestseller,  Fiction, family life, general