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Bernadette Fox is a former architect, recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, who is now a virtually agoraphobic stay-at-home mom to a precocious 8th grader, and wife to a Microsoft team leader. She cannot be bothered with the idiots who people her neighborhood, and calls the mothers of other students at her daughter’s tony school “the gnats.” Things quickly spiral out of control when she hires a virtual assistant from India to do all her err ...more
Bernadette Fox is a former architect, recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, who is now a virtually agoraphobic stay-at-home mom to a precocious 8th grader, and wife to a Microsoft team leader. She cannot be bothered with the idiots who people her neighborhood, and calls the mothers of other students at her daughter’s tony school “the gnats.” Things quickly spiral out of control when she hires a virtual assistant from India to do all her err ...more
This was a fun read
2.5 stars
Complex and entertaining
This book was bit different than I expected. I enjoyed the story and the complexities of the characters. I felt the author captured the quirkiness of an artistic soul quite well in Bernadette. The book illustrated the different takes on the same situations by different people quite well.
The reason I didn’t find it a 5 star is I found the storyline a little too erratic at times even when you realize who the narrator is it still felt a bit disjointed. Additionally there w ...more
This book was bit different than I expected. I enjoyed the story and the complexities of the characters. I felt the author captured the quirkiness of an artistic soul quite well in Bernadette. The book illustrated the different takes on the same situations by different people quite well.
The reason I didn’t find it a 5 star is I found the storyline a little too erratic at times even when you realize who the narrator is it still felt a bit disjointed. Additionally there w ...more
This novel consists of emails to and from various people, narration, texts, letters, and more -- which I found a little hard to get used to at first but by the end, thoroughly enjoyed. The major players are intriguing and unusual, especially the title character Bernadette, who is the teenaged narrator's mother. This is one I am going to want to read again. Recommended!
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Quirky and it definitely had its moments; however, it tripped and stumbled just enough that I liked it but didn't love it.
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Very cute! Loved how it's written in letters, emails, journal entries, newspaper clippings... Just very, very cool!
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