Book rec! Where'd You go Bernadette

[joenali]

OMG! So funny! You MUST read this book. It takes place in Seattle and there is a a lot of humor that you can relate to. One line from the book from a Los Angeles transplant "THere are only two hairstyles in Seattle, short and gray or long and gray!"

From Amazon:
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--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.

[Deleted]

H just finished this yesterday and REALLY wants me to read it as well so he hasn't returned it to the library yet.

[InBetweenDays]

Thanks! Another one to add to my hold list at the library.

[jennlin]

i love books that take place in seattle. i will look into it. thanks!

[dawnyp]

Sounds good. I'm always looking for good books. I just picked up the new JK Rowling book yesterday not sure if it will be good or not.