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

瑪利亞・森普爾

以編劇的身份，前後在洛杉磯工作十五年，她編寫過的熱門節目包括《艾倫秀》《周六夜現場》《發展受阻》等。同時她也是一位作品在全球46個國傢和地區深受歡迎的著名作傢，代錶作品有《伯納黛特，你要去哪》《今天將會不一樣》（即將齣版）。

網站：www.mariasemple.com

何雨珈，三十齣頭的少女老譯者，野生生活藝術傢，譯有《紙牌屋》《當呼吸化為空氣》《丹麥女孩》《再會，老北京》《東北遊記》《權力之路 林登·約翰遜傳 》等作品。