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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This book is very tongue in cheek and had me laughing out loud. The ending dragged a bit so that's why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5. A thoroughly enjoyable read.
A great, fun read to get the summertime reading started! I devoured this book, which hasn't happened in a while.
(Meanwhile, I'm still only 35% of the way through Dragon's Teeth, last month's book club book...)
(Meanwhile, I'm still only 35% of the way through Dragon's Teeth, last month's book club book...)
Ok. Perhaps in 2012 when the book was written, it was ok to make fun of different races. Well I took offense early in the book with the depiction of Manjula - an Indian woman outsourced to help Bernadette for a measly wage. There was a point in the book when Bernadette referred to Manjula's "red dot" and that's when I lost it. In addition, why call your daughter BalaKrishna... appropriate much? I had also made the mistake of listening to the audio version of the book where the narrator faked an Indian woman voice, and what can I say but that I lost it further. And you can't even pronounce Manjula properly? Later Bee calls Soo-Lin, Yoko Ono... The author tries to explain that one away... No. Just Yuck. Ugh the tripe that gets high praise and bestselling titles. The only redeeming factor was the relationship between Bernadette and Bee.
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