A brilliant, misanthropic architect vanishes, leaving her daughter to assemble emails and documents in a witty satire of family and Seattle life.
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A brilliant, misanthropic architect vanishes, leaving her daughter to assemble emails and documents in a witty satire of family and Seattle life.
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A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this "whip-smart and divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times). 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 her best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadet...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Married couple shares occasional kisses; no explicit content
Violence & gore
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Minor injuries, a foot run over, mudslide peril, and off-page death
Profanity
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Recurring strong language and cursing by main characters
Substance use
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Mild drug material referenced; limited substance depiction
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No evidence found in available sources
Religious content
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No evidence found in available sources
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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No occult content present
Political content
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Satire of privilege, helicopter parenting, and tech-culture excess
Self-harm / suicide
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No evidence found in available sources
Abuse & suffering
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No evidence found in available sources
Other
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