Dónde estás, Bernadette / Where'd You Go, Bernardette by Maria Semple

Dónde estás, Bernadette / Where'd You Go, Bernardette by Maria Semple

Una matriarca misántropa provoca una crisis familiar al desaparecer misteriosamente. Una novela irresistible, hilarante y emotiva que ha inspirado la película protagonizada por Cate Blanchett.

Bernadette Fox es famosa. Para Elgie, su marido y gurú de Microsoft, es una esposa con mucho carácter. Para las madres del colegio privado de Seattle donde lleva a su hija es una deshonra. Para el gremio de arquitectos es un genio, y para Bee, su hija adolescente, es sencillamente mamá.

Esta historia comienza cuando Bee llega a casa con excelentes notas. Sus padres le habían prometido que podría escoger el regalo soñado, y Bee decide que quiere un viaje a la Antártida con ellos. Bernadette, que, entre muchas otras cosas, sufre de agorafobia y odia cualquier tipo de contacto social, no es capaz de decirle que no a su hija, y entonces... Bernadette desaparece.

La intrépida Bee emprende su búsqueda rastreando la correspondencia de su madre: emails, mensajes, cartas secretas, documentos oficiales... todo ellos servirá para conformar una lectura hilarante que nos ayudará a reflexionar sobre las relaciones familiares. Y es que Bernadette, a pesar de todas sus imperfecciones, es un regalo para el lector.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

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.

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 her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.

Maria Semple spent a few years traveling around Europe with her parents. They lived in Spain for a while, and it was there that their father, Lorenzo, wrote Batman scripts. After they moved to Colorado, Maria went to Choate Rosemary Hall, where she was very happy. Superior studies were pursued at Barnard, and Maria decided to pursue a career as a novelist there. Nevertheless, his plans were thwarted when he began working as a guionist for Twentieth Century Fox.

He moved to Los Angeles and worked on the television shows Beverly Hills, 90210, Ellen, Crazy About You, and Arrested Development. Maria had a child and began writing novels, the first of which was This One is Mine, and the second, Dónde estás, Bernadette, which has risen to the top of The New York Times bestseller lists.http://www.mariasemple.com/

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ISBN 13	9781947783645
ISBN 10	1947783645
Title	Dónde estás, Bernadette / Where'd You Go, Bernardette
Author	Maria Semple
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Reservoir Books
Year published	2018-05-29
Number of pages	352
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.