![]() There's even a live-blog transcript of an internet TED talk amid the documentary evidence: like Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad, which pitches one chapter in the form of a PowerPoint presentation, this is a very modern comedy indeed. In Maria Semple's deceptively jaunty debut novel, the question of how eccentric, driven Bernadette became lost to herself and her family, adoring husband Elgie and daughter Bee, is resolved through a dossier of letters, emails, phone transcripts, doctors' reports, instant messaging exchanges and more the various documents are assembled by a cast of kooky characters in a series of ever more unlikely acts of reclamation, curated by Bee as she charts the search for her mother. ![]() F irst, Bernadette fled from LA to Seattle then she retreated from a dazzling architectural career and a MacArthur Genius Grant into domestic anxiety and disproportionate rages over the minor irritations of modern life then she disappeared altogether, possibly to the South Pole, where she would at last be able to declare that "the world literally revolved" around her. ![]()
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