Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Cate Blanchett. A whip-smart, hysterical dramedy about a family in crisis after the disappearance of its brilliant, misanthropic matriarch. 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. Where’d You Go Bernadette is a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.
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I mostly loved this book but had a problem with the ending. Bernadette obviously has some mental issues but says at the end she suggests that everything would be fine after she returned from her trip to Antarctica. If she had assured Bee she would see help when she got home I would have liked the ending better, but mostly this was a fun listen, very well narrated.
An interesting storytelling style, using various communications between the characters (texts, emails, letters, etc.) to tell the story. I'm not a huge fan of this style - as I found it a bit hard to follow in the beginning before the characters were known well enough to easily jump from one to another, though it was successful in telling the story and with enough character development to be worth it. A cute story with quirky characters.
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