Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple [Book]
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A couple of creative, perceptive and witty misfits star in this novel. Mother, wife and lapsed architect Bernadette lives in Seattle with her high-tech superstar husband and too-smart-for-social-success teenage daughter. They live in a beyond weird old house and can’t cope with their perfectly privileged and PC neighbors or private school. The format is as original as the characters: the story unfolds through letters, emails, diary entries and school documents. Maria Semple wrote for TV’s Arrested Development, so you’d expect the dialogue and plot twists to be hilarious, and they are; there are scenes that would be fabulous onscreen. There’s also sincerity and real character development in these quickly-turning pages.