Maria Semple's affecting characters, ... Where’d You Go, Bernadette A Novel. Maria Semple Little, Brown: 330 pp., $25.99. Bernadette has a problem — well, actually, she has a few.

The film adaptation of Maria Semple’s best-selling, critically acclaimed, locally adored novel “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” opens in theaters nationwide this weekend, and at Semple’s hometown Isis ...

Comedy writer Maria Semple's latest, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, follows 15-year-old Bee as she tracks down her mother, Bernadette, who disappeared on the eve of a family trip to Antarctica.

In former television writer Maria Semple's second novel, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, 15-year-old Bee searches for her missing mother, an eccentric former architect. Semple mixes police and FBI ...

Maria Semple, author of the acclaimed 'Where’d You Go, Bernadette’ and former 'Arrested Development’ writer, discusses the epistolary form, multi-platform writing, and the importance of walking.

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If Gillian Flynn’s “Gone Girl” represented the dark heart of the summer literature, Maria Semple’s breezy “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” embodies the sunnier, funnier side. A satiric ...

In Where'd You Go, Bernadette, the titular character is a middle-aged wife of a very successful tech superstar and mother of a witty teenage daughter. The novel is set in flourishing Seattle among ...