Tag: Humor

Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

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Over 17,250 5-Star Reviews!

A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this "whip-smart and divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times).

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 her best friend and, simply, Mom.

Then Bernadette vanishes. It all 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, and secret correspondence — creating a compulsively readable and surprisingly touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter’s role in an absurd world.

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The Sideways Life of Denny Voss by Holly Kennedy

Over 1,950 5-Star Reviews!

In this poignant and funny novel, a man defined by his limitations finds himself at the center of a murder trial—and discovers unexpected truths about his past, his family, and himself.

Denny Voss lives a quiet life in rural Minnesota with his elderly mother and his blind, deaf Saint Bernard, George. He cleans up roadkill for work, and despite a developmental delay caused at birth, Denny believes he has “a good life.”

So how did he end up crashing a sled full of guns into a tree—and getting charged with the murder of a mayoral candidate?

While awaiting trial, Denny recounts the events of the past year to his court-appointed therapist, from accidentally kidnapping a neighbor’s goose to unwittingly aiding a bank robbery. Each attempt to do good seems to spiral into absurd misadventure.

But as the truth behind the murder unfolds, so do long-buried secrets about Denny’s family. And for the first time, Denny must decide what kind of future he truly wants—and how to fight for it.

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