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 the earth is problematic.

To find her mother, 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.

Maria Semple

玛利亚・森普尔

以编剧的身份，前后在洛杉矶工作十五年，她编写过的热门节目包括《艾伦秀》《周六夜现场》《发展受阻》等。同时她也是一位作品在全球46个国家和地区深受欢迎的著名作家，代表作品有《伯纳黛特，你要去哪》《今天将会不一样》（即将出版）。

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何雨珈，三十出头的少女老译者，野生生活艺术家，译有《纸牌屋》《当呼吸化为空气》《丹麦女孩》《再会，老北京》《东北游记》《权力之路 林登·约翰逊传 》等作品。