Where'd You Go, Bernadette: a novel

If you enjoyed last summer's GONE GIRL.  You will find this novel to your liking.  At the heart of the novel by Maria Sample, is 14 year old Bea who is hard to resist.  Bea is  kind hearted (despite serious heart issues,) intelligent, loyal, and an independent thinker.  The kind of girl we'd all like as a friend growing up or as a daughter.  In fact, Bea & her mother share an incredible bond.  Both parents are creative geniuses.  The father is a revered Microsoft exec. who is hardly ever at home & her mother, Bernadette, is agoraphobi &  always there for Bea.  Bernadette's eccentricities & altercations with other's & Bea's insights are entertaining - until things get out of control.  Elgin, Bea's father, becomes  convinced his wife needs to be committed to a mental health facility.  Bernadette is on to her husband's plans for her abduction & ingeniously eludes everyone & vanishes.  Bea is determined to find her mom and this is where the story becomes mired in tedium.  Having committed thus far,  I sought resolution, but not with the zest I had beforehand.  I felt the same for GONE GIRL, both stories drew most of the way through but left me feeling cheated.  Nonetheless, WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE makes for a light, summer read.