[Book Review] Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

Title: Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Author: Maria Semple

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Published on: August 14, 2012

Source: publisher (BEA 2012)

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.

No wonder this book was a new york times best seller. It was great. An ingenious piece of literature if I may say:) The format of the writing was not only cool but unique! It suited the story and the whole facade. The writing and narration of each character was magically blinding. As in, I thanked God for the existence of dictionary. Though I did not really use it. Maybe, thank God for context clues. Anyway, the content in itself is funny and hilarious at times. Only if you do get the pun. Because a lot of times, one of the char will talk about an idea that you may not have encountered in your life. And isn't really thoroughly explained in the book. As if you yourself should know those facts. I was just thankful that i was geek enough to know the general ideas on those stuffs. But nonetheless, the book was pure genius and reality-bound. I can't say anymore than what the synopsis already said. But let me just tell you that the novel can be an eye-opener, if you want it to. Mostly, I laughed and cried and just enjoyed the story. I most likely won't forget a character such as Bernadette, and I will most likely use her as an anecdote of some sort in the future. Teehee.

Note: Copy was received in exchange for an honest review :)