The release date for the English version of 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' by
Maria Semple is Aug 2012. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Bernadette Fox is no longer there.
Bernadette is a highly brilliant shut-in who becomes overwhelmed with planning when her daughter Bee demands a family vacation to Antarctica as a reward for receiving perfect marks. However, Ms. Fox is about to lose it after years of attempting to live the Seattle life she never desired. And when a school fundraiser goes horribly wrong under her direction, she vanishes, leaving her family to pick up the pieces. Which is precisely what Bee does, piecing together a complex network of emails, bills, and school memoranda to uncover a long-hidden background for Bernadette. The brilliant and blatantly enjoyable book Where'd You Go Bernadette is about a family coming to grips with who they are and the strength of a daughter's love for her mother.