Description
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, divorcées in recovery programs, uncomprehending school principals, arguing academics, 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 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.
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Author: Barrodale, Amie
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub Date: September 2, 2025
Category: Fiction / Literary
ISBN: 9780374617349