Where'd You Go, Bernadette
by Maria Semple · first published 2012
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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 th
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…fiction I would recommend: - Remainder by Tom McCarthy, a novel that dives deep into a weird cognitive question. I first read it about 8 years ago and it changed my idea of what a novel could be. - Where'd you go Bernadette? by Maria Semple. The funniest book I've ever read. By a writer from the TV series Arrested Development. Satire of the intellectual & tech wealth Seattle world, but also much more than that.
on “Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?” ↗A few fiction recommendations: Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple is the funniest novel I've ever read. Man v Nature by Diane Cook is an inventive, insightful and sometimes dark collection of short stories that are often high concept but reveal a lot…
on “Analyzing Hacker News book suggestions in Python” ↗> Life isn’t meant to be an endless parade of amusements. “That’s right,” a mother says to her daughter in Maria Semple’s 2012 novel, “Where’d You Go, Bernadette.” “You are bored. And I’m going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it’s boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it’s on you to make life interesting, the better…
on “Let Children Get Bored Again” ↗