![]() ![]() “I’m going to let you in on a little secret about life. 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. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic. ![]() ![]() 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. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. 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. ![]()
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