Trip A Novel
Trip, a novel by Amie Barrodale, is set to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on September 2, 2025. This 304-page work explores a woman’s journey through the afterlife as she seeks to help her son, Trip, who is lost both literally and figuratively at sea. The narrative unfolds after Sandra’s sudden death at a conference in Nepal, leading to her son’s impulsive departure with a stranger. The story delves into themes of misunderstanding and devotion, featuring a cast of characters that includes restless souls and academics.
Readers will find a blend of humor and poignancy as the novel navigates the complexities of life and death. The journey is marked by Sandra’s attempts to communicate with Trip through mystics, who are preoccupied with their own distractions. The book incorporates elements of magical realism and metaphysical exploration, presenting a vivid tapestry of experiences that reflect on the nature of existence and the bonds between mother and son. With its unique premise and rich character dynamics, Trip offers a thought-provoking look at the challenges of understanding oneself and others.
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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.
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