June Book: Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Bernadette Fox is a lot of things: a loving mother, a strong-willed wife, a respected architect, and an agoraphobic. In Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple, Bernadette vanishes before a family trip to Antarctica, setting her 15-year-old daughter Bee on an amateur investigation to find her mother. Hailed by The New York Times as “divinely funny,” Where’d You Go, Bernadette is a sharp commentary on mother–daughter bonds and the challenge of creativity, suffused with excellent storytelling and laugh-out-loud moments that will have your book club group in stitches.