I love a book that keeps me wanting more. The first book that I borrowed from the Charlotte County Library System’s new e-book provider 3M Cloud Library had me wishing that I could stay home and keep reading.
Where’d You Go, Bernadette is the story of 15-year old Bee, her hilariously dysfunctional parents Bernadette and Elgie, and the events that lead up to the disappearance of Bernadette. Dad works at Microsoft while mom stays home and finds ways to annoy her neighbor, Audrey Griffin.
When Bee brings home her report card with straight A’s, her parents are forced to give her “anything she wants” because they promised her they would if she got straight A’s. What Bee wants is to go on a family trip to Antarctica. The problem is, Bernadette is a bit of a recluse. It turns out that she was a famous architect until she had a breakdown due to a neighbor tearing down the famous house that she built all from extremely local building materials.
Between the feud with her neighbor, Audrey and the rest of the mothers at her daughter’s school and Bernadette getting scammed by the Russian mafia through the false virtual assistant, Manjula, that she hires, the story of Bernadette’s mania and the inevitable “intervention” and disappearance – this book had me not wanting to go to work, food shopping, get out of bed, because I HAD to find out what was going to happen. I found myself chuckling one moment and sniffling back a tear the next. It was a truly enjoyable book.
Thanks for reading.
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