Author: mariasemple

A New York Times Notable Book from the bestselling author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette! Follow a surprising, momentous day in the life of wife and mother Eleanor in this “searingly honest and hilarious and dark and neurotic” novel (Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies).

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…