{"id":141,"date":"2013-07-01T23:05:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T23:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/?p=141"},"modified":"2014-03-12T17:58:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T17:58:18","slug":"whered-you-go-bernadette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/whered-you-go-bernadette\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;d You Go, Bernadette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"myoptions\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariasemple.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">By Maria Semple<\/a><\/br>\r\n[myrating]\r\n<\/div><br \/>\nBernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she\u2019s a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she\u2019s a disgrace; to design mavens, she\u2019s a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.<\/p>\n<p>Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette\u2019s intensifying allergy to Seattle \u2013 and people in general \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p>To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence \u2013 creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a daughter\u2019s unflinching love for her imperfect mother.<\/p>\n<div class=\"homecomment\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"myoptions\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariasemple.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">By Maria Semple<\/a><\/br><br \/>\n[myrating]\n<\/div>\n<p>Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she\u2019s a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she\u2019s a disgrace; to design mavens, she\u2019s a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/whered-you-go-bernadette\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Read More ...<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}