Donde estas, Bernadette / Where'd You Go, Bernardette

Maria Semple

Donde estas, Bernadette / Where'd You Go, Bernardette
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Reservoir Books
Country
Published
29 May 2018
Pages
352
ISBN
9781947783645

Donde estas, Bernadette / Where’d You Go, Bernardette

Maria Semple

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

Bernadette Fox es famosa. Para Elgie, su marido y guru de Microsoft, es una esposa con mucho caracter. 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 mama.

Esta historia comienza cuando Bee llega a casa con excelentes notas. Sus padres le habian prometido que podria escoger el regalo sonado, y Bee decide que quiere un viaje a la Antartida 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 intrepida Bee emprende su busqueda rastreando la correspondencia de su madre: emails, mensajes, cartas secretas, documentos oficiales… todo ellos servira para conformar una lectura hilarante que nos ayudara 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.

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