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March Book Club

March 10, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Bernadette

Metro: Clarendon (Orange Line)

 

 

Where’d You Go, Bernadette:  A Novel
by Maria Semple

 

Book Description:

 

“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.”

 

Please email Fatima Ahmad at uvabookclub@dchoos.org for more information.

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Date:
March 10, 2014
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Venue

Silver Diner
3200 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22201 United States
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