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This book is searingly honest and hilarious and dark and neurotic. It is dizzying. Best of all, it is delicious. This author is on her way to becoming a national treasure. Louis Post-Dispatch. Yet these pieces are strung together so wittily that Ms. You could stop and pay attention to how apt each new format is, how rarely she repeats herself and how imaginatively she unveils every bit of information.

But you would have to stop laughing first. Maybe this is what Semple learned writing for the television show Mad About You. Its many twists and turns are genuinely surprising. Semple has written a fantastic, funny novel.

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Its affecting characters, not-necessarily-nice humor and surprising plot twists make this novel an enchanting ride. Read Bernadette , laugh loud and long, then take a good look in the mirror. Her characters, simultaneously larger-than-life and grounded in reality, embody her aptitude for belly-laugh satire and social commentary. Semple pokes fun at the Pacific Northwest as only a Seattlite can and concocts a caper that, if seen from outer-space, might be a mess but in the minutiae of its tangles is clear and rewarding.