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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple · 初版 2012 年
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Bernadette Fox 声名狼藉。对她身为微软大拿的丈夫而言，她是一个无所畏惧、极有主见的伴侣；对西雅图私立学校的其他母亲来说，她是个笑柄；对设计专家而言，她是一位革命性的建筑师；而对15岁的 Bee 来说，她是最好的朋友，也是无可替代的妈妈。然而，Bernadette 突然失踪了。这一切始于 Bee 拿到全优成绩单并索要承诺的奖励：全家去南极旅行。但 Bernadette 对西雅图——以及对人类整体——日益加剧的排斥，使她患上了严重的广场恐惧症，以至于连最基本的生活琐事都要靠印度的虚拟助理来跑腿。一场前往世界尽头的……
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…虚构类作品我想推荐：- Tom McCarthy 的《Remainder》，这部小说深入探讨了一个奇特的认知问题。我大概 8 年前第一次读它，彻底刷新了我对小说可能性的认知。- Maria Semple 的《Where'd You Go, Bernadette》。我读过最搞笑的书，作者来自电视剧《Arrested Development》的编剧团队。它讽刺了西雅图知识阶层与科技新贵的圈子，但内涵远不止于此。
…fiction I would recommend: - Remainder by Tom McCarthy, a novel that dives deep into a weird cognitive question. I first read it about 8 years ago and it changed my idea of what a novel could be. - Where'd you go Bernadette? by Maria Semple. The funniest book I've ever read. By a writer from the TV series Arrested Development. Satire of the intellectual & tech wealth Seattle world, but also much more than that.
推荐几本虚构类作品：Maria Semple 的《Where'd You Go Bernadette》是我读过最搞笑的小说。Diane Cook 的《Man v Nature》是一部极具创意、富有洞察力且有时略带阴暗的短篇故事集，立意通常很 high concept，却揭示了许多……
A few fiction recommendations: Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple is the funniest novel I've ever read. Man v Nature by Diane Cook is an inventive, insightful and sometimes dark collection of short stories that are often high concept but reveal a lot…
> 生活本来就不是一场没完没了的娱乐盛宴。“没错，”Maria Semple 2012 年的小说《Where’d You Go, Bernadette》里一位母亲对女儿说，“你觉得无聊。那我就告诉你一个关于生活的小秘密。你觉得现在很无聊？呵，以后只会越来越无聊。你越早明白让生活变得有趣全靠你自己，日子就会过得越好……
> Life isn’t meant to be an endless parade of amusements. “That’s right,” a mother says to her daughter in Maria Semple’s 2012 novel, “Where’d You Go, Bernadette.” “You are bored. And I’m going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it’s boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it’s on you to make life interesting, the better…