Where'd you go, Bernadette / Semple, Maria

When the pressure and distractions of life in Seattle--which she hates--overcome her, Bernadette Fox decides she has had enough, and disappears. Her Microsoft-wizard husband, a slough of angry polite mothers, questioning police officers, and her daughter, Bee, are left in her wake to find out where she has gone, and who she really was.

When Bee aces her report card she claims her reward, which is a trip to Antarctica, but her mother, Bernadette, disappears due to her intensifying allergy to Seattle and people in general, which has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands and Bee uses emails, invoices, school memos, private correspondence, and other evidence to try and understand why her mother has left.

When Bee aces her report card she claims her reward, which is a trip to Antarctica, but her mother, Bernadette, disappears due to her intensifying allergy to Seattle and people in general, which has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands and Bee uses emails, invoices, school memos, private correspondence, and other evidence to try and understand why her mother has left.