Here's something you don't see every day: a new novel in which the protagonist is a female architect. And no, not a miniskirt-wearing Architect Barbie who lives in a pink glass house and may threaten the women's lib movement, but rather a "once-celebrated architect who won a MacArthur genius award" and has become "paralyzed at midlife, holed up in a crumbling former girls' school she purchased as the family home." Architizer has more on Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette. [Architizer; previously]
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