When fifteen-year-old Bee claims a family to Antartica as a reward for perfect grades, her fiercely intelligent but agoraphobic mother, Bernadette, throws herself into preparation for the trip. Worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted, Bernadette is on the brink of a meltdown. As disaster follows disaster, she disappears, leaving her family to pick up the pieces. Which is exactly what Bee does, weaving together emails, invoices, and school memos to reveal the secret past that Bernadette had been hiding for decades.

This book was left in the Little Free Library. It was released for the Never Judge A Book by its Cover release challenge. (The woman on the cover is wearing sunglasses.)