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Trip

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Trip

By: Amie Barrodale
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A mortally funny story of a mother's love that defies all odds, including death

Three days after I died, my son ran away.

Sandra dies unexpectedly at a conference in Nepal. Across the world, her teenage son, Trip, has run away from a centre for troubled youth in the North American desert.

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.

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.

From Florida's Gulf Stream to the raging seas, through Munich-bound aeroplanes and from one body to another, Trip takes us on an absurd, profound and irresistibly entertaining odyssey - a story of childhood and motherhood, life and death, and everything in between.

'Amie Barrodale is the most important writer of my generation' OTTESSA MOSHFEGH


© Amie Barrodale 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

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Barrodale is witty, soulful, and sharp all at once (Mary Gaitskill)
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