Bernadette Fox is notorious To her Microsoft-guru husband shes a fearlessly opinionated partner to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle shes a disgrace to design mavens shes a revolutionary architect and to -year-old Bee she is a best friend and simply MomThen Bernadette disappears It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward a family trip to Antarctica But Bernadettes 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 problematicTo 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 daughters role in an absurd world.
