![]() ![]() ![]() Then the family go on a trip to Antarctica, which appears to give Bernadette the opportunity she needs to erase herself further, to vanish entirely into the white. She spends most of her days in an Airstream trailer at the foot of their garden and has even taken to using an online assistant to minimise contact with the outside world, particularly the "gnats", her term for the other mothers at her daughter's private school. Bernadette's husband, Elgie, has taken a job in Seattle with Microsoft and Bernadette's world has become smaller and smaller. M aria Semple's witty, engaging novel takes the form of a collage of documents, emails, transcripts, liveblogs, FBI reports and magazine articles, all strung together by Bee Branch, a smart and articulate 15-year-old girl, but beneath this surface playfulness is a fascinating story of one woman's retreat from the world.īee's mother is Bernadette Fox, a renowned architect whose work ("She was built green before there was green") once earned her a MacArthur genius grant, but after the birth of her daughter she simply stops. ![]()
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