{"id":189470,"date":"2013-06-12T14:37:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T14:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/msr-research-item\/whered-you-go-bernadette\/"},"modified":"2016-09-09T13:15:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T20:15:32","slug":"whered-you-go-bernadette","status":"publish","type":"msr-video","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/video\/whered-you-go-bernadette\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;d You Go Bernadette"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<p>Maria Semple\u2019s new Seattle-based book, Where\u2019d You Go, Bernadette, is a hilarious take on our fair city and all it has to offer \u2014 Craftsman houses, helicopter parents and, of course, the importance of tech in this town. None other than Microsoft plays a big part in this story of Bernadette, a MacArthur Genius Award-winning architect who loathes her adopted city, her husband, Elgin Branch, a brilliant gadget inventor at Microsoft, and their daughter Bee.<br \/>\nSemple, a former TV writer talked to us about her book\u2019s undeniably important background character \u2013 tech \u2013 and the role it plays in her book and Seattle.<br \/>\nThe everyday details on Microsoft are pretty amazing \u2013 how did you do the research to get all the information on what working there is like? It all appears very accurate and spot-on\u2026It\u2019s one of great compliments that I get now, and I\u2019m just inundated with emails from Microsoft people who love the book and say that I got it exactly right, and they all love it, it\u2019s very affectionate. Bernadette has a few quips about Microsoft, but it\u2019s very affectionate for people inside Microsoft\u2014people inside Microsoft love Microsoft. I thought that wouldn\u2019t be true. I was actually surprised when I went there and everyone was into Microsoft. \u2026 I thought they\u2019d be like, \u201cOh, I wish I worked at Apple.\u201d I didn\u2019t think they would be that happy, but I felt that was real, and I felt that I must represent that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .asset-content --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Semple\u2019s new Seattle-based book, Where\u2019d You Go, Bernadette, is a hilarious take on our fair city and all it has to offer \u2014 Craftsman houses, helicopter parents and, of course, the importance of tech in this town. 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