Trip

<p><b>A mortally funny story of a mother's quest to save her son against all odds<br><br>'Transcendent and dazzlingly weird' <i>New York Times</i><br><br>'Amie Barrodale is the most important writer of my generation' Ottessa Moshfegh</b><br><br>Sandra dies unexpectedly at a conference in Nepal. Across the world in a desert in New Mexico, her teenage son, Trip, has run away from a centre for troubled youth.<br><br>But Sandra soon discovers that a mother s work is never done, not even when you re dead. It turns out limbo is a great place from which to keep an eye on your errant son. When Trip is picked up on the side of the road by a strange man, Sandra is the only one who knows where he is.<br><br>As Trip ventures further south towards the coast and directly into the eye of a hurricane, Sandra s struggle to save him from the other realm begins.<br><br>From Florida s Gulf Stream to the raging seas, through Munich-bound aeroplanes and from one body to another, <i>Trip </i>takes us on an absurd, profound and irresistibly entertaining odyssey - a story of childhood and motherhood, life and death, and everything in between.<br><br><b>'Beautifully crafted, hard-boiled fun' Nell Zink<br><br>'I was captivated and charmed for its entirety' Adelaide Faith</b><br><br><b>'An extraordinary novel' Akhil Sharma</b></p>