Trip

A woman embarks on an odyssey through the afterlife to help her son, who is literally and...
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Author: Amie Barrodale
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Language: English
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Trip by Barrodale, Amie

Trip

$43.11

Trip

$43.11
Author: Amie Barrodale
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

A woman embarks on an odyssey through the afterlife to help her son, who is literally and figuratively lost at sea: a hilarious and deeply moving voyage of the body and the mind.

Sandra dies suddenly at a death conference in Nepal attended by academics and mystics. Days later, back in America, her teenage son, Trip, runs away with a man who picks him up on the side of a road. Sandra tries to get a message back to Trip through the mystics, but the mystics are distracted, and her son and the strange man set out to sea.

Amie Barrodale's first novel features restless souls, Buddhist deities, divorcees in recovery programs, arguing academics, uncomprehending school principals, and treatment centers for troubled teenagers. It journeys from body to body, through life and death and back again. It tells the story of a mother and son who find other people hard to understand and who are themselves misunderstood. Guiding this wild, unpredictable journey is deep devotion: the desire to save a child and to be a good mother despite it all.

Wide-eyed with wonder, blazingly funny and achingly moving, Trip brings us the deeper meaning of The Tibetan Book of the Dead: the past is a memory, the future is a projection, the present is gone before we can see it.

Author: Amie Barrodale
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 09/02/2025
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.70w x 1.17d
ISBN: 9780374617349


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/14/2025
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2025
Booklist 08/01/2025
BookPage 09/01/2025

About the Author
Amie Barrodale's stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's Magazine, and other publications. In 2012 she was awarded The Paris Review's Plimpton Prize for Fiction for her story "William Wei." She is the author of You Are Having a Good Time: Stories.

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