Eagle Harbor Book Company welcomes author of 'Where Did You Go, Bernadette?'


August 22, 2012 · Updated 11:00 AM 

Maria Semple presents “Where Did You Go, Bernadette?” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23 at Eagle Harbor Book Company.

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 the earth is problematic. Then Bernadette disappears. To find her mother, 15-year-old Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence - creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter’s role in an absurd world.

Eagle Harbor Book Company is at 157 Winslow Way East.

For more information, call 206-842-5332.

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