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 her best friend and, simply, Mom.
Then Bernadette vanishes. It all 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, and secret correspondence — creating a compulsively readable and surprisingly touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.
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Release date
August 14, 2012 -
Formats
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Kindle Book
- ISBN: 9780316401593
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780316204286
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780316204286
- File size: 4545 KB
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 5.4
- Lexile® Measure: 820
- Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
- Text Difficulty: 4
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