Where'd You Go Bernadette has already been thoroughly reviewed here and I agree that it is 1) A sendup of life in Seattle. Since I live in Missouri I can only guess at the accuracy but 2) Said sendup is a great satire, full of characters that would never find their way into a Jane Austin book and 3) Wildly imaginative in the best way that kept me reading when I should have been doing something else and 4) Provided a totally unexpected ending to a tragic (sort of) disappearance. Great book.