• Where'd You Go, Bernadette

  • A Novel
  • By: Maria Semple
  • Narrated by: Kathleen Wilhoite
  • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (17,175 ratings)

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Where'd You Go, Bernadette

By: Maria Semple
Narrated by: Kathleen Wilhoite
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Publisher's summary

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.

©2012 Maria Semple (P)2012 Hachette Audio

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Loved it!

Great narrator and story! The story was happy, sad, interesting and told from many perspectives. One of the best!

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Antartica, Yes Please!

What a beautifully written story. It takes a bit to get used to the author's writing style.. as it is written through a series of letters/emails/ and notes. But what a wonderful story. We find Bernadette in a series of laughter- inducing situations that takes the book from just funny to hilarious. I found myself laughing out loud many times while listening to this book at my desk at work.

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very enjoyable read

This book wasn't what I was expecting. I read the synopsis that said Bernadette's daughter uses correspondence emails and documents to search for her mother. I was expecting parts of the story to be dry in places.

I was pleasantly surprised to discover the book to be fast paced and very witty start to finish. Although it is told from a 15 year olds perspective I would not recommend to teens that do not like a duly stories. There's a little language and a little violence and a small not very graphic sex scene - this book is suitable for adults and mature teens.

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What a narrator!

Far better than the film, the world of the book is much more dark and richly lived in. But I am most impressed by the narrator who - from Kiwi ship announcements to Christmas spectacular carols - keeps the characters authentic and the situations invitingly immersive.

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I loved it!

Purely wonderful! Loved it. The characters are quirky and well developed. The story is implausible but made you want to believe it. Narration is well matched to the characters and story. If you need to be taken away from the world , go here!

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Funny

This was an easy read full of laughs and a little bit of mystery. I adores all of the characters in this novel

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Narrater is phenomenal

The story gets 5 stars easy. But the narration is better by many orders of magnitude

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Get it, this book is great!

If you like to laugh, get this book and listen!!!
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awesome!!

this is a great book! so fun to listen to!! would 100% recommend to anyone!

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Very gripping

Hard to put down reading. It did not star that way but be patient and soon one gets gripped. Well written with strong characters.

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