Trip : a novel / Amie Barrodale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrodale, Amie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Magic realism (Literature).

Future life--Fiction.

Future life.

Mother and child--Fiction.

Mother and child.

Death--Fiction.

Death.

Ocean travel--Fiction.

Ocean travel.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

290 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025

Summary:

"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, 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."--Amazon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 289-290).

ISBN:

0374617341

9780374617349

OCLC:

1478325653