Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel

Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Well deserved 5 stars! This book was so fun to read! It was funny, fast paced, could not put this book down!

Bernadette Fox has some issues, ok a lot of issues. She's with drawn from society, doesn't want to deal with the normal life issues, but still functions in her own little world. Instead of dealing with life, going out to the grocery store, shopping for her husband Elgin, who is a Microsoft guru, and their daughter Bee, Bernadette hires a personal assistant online, who tends to all her shopping needs, normal errands that one would normally do, and anything else that she doesn't have to make an appearance at.

Bee wants to go to Antarctica and her parents agree they would go IF she aced her report card, which she does, which means Bernadette must go as well. This doesn't sit well with Bernadette, this sends her agoraphobic into a tail-spin. While she pretends to be handling this for face of her family, the FBI comes knocking at their door, and Elgin has had enough of Bernadette's shenanigans, and has an intervention with a psychologist who makes matter's worse for Bernadette. She takes off and disappears. Bee is heartbroken and sets out to find Bernadette, with determination to find her mother her starts her own search through email messages, documents and secret correspondence, she won't stop until she finds her mother.

The character's where well developed, and the plot was thought out. I found this light hearted book a joy to read. I didn't care that some thought it wasn't plausible, this was a book that was ment to be enjoyed. There wasn't any secret messages being displayed, this wasn't based on someone's life, it was just a good, fast paced, hilarious, fun, light-hearted book, that was meant to be read for fun.

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