A Novel Idea Book Group
March 14 @ 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Join us in the library’s community room for a discussion of “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” by Maria Semple
A copy of the book can be picked up at the 3rd floor reference desk.
A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this “whip-smart and divinely funny” novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times).
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 her best friend and, simply, Mom.
Then Bernadette vanishes. It all 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, and secret correspondence — creating a compulsively readable and surprisingly touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter’s role in an absurd world.
DETAILS
Date:
March 14
Time:
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Event Categories:
Cambria County Library, CCL-Adults, CCL-Book Discussion
ORGANIZER
Cambria County Library
VENUE
Cambria County Library
248 Main Street
Johnstown, PA 15901 United States
Phone:
814-536-5131
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Original source can be found here.
