{"product_id":"trip-hardcover","title":"Trip - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmie Barrodale\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSandra 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmie 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWide-eyed with wonder, blazingly funny and achingly moving, \u003ci\u003eTrip \u003c\/i\u003ebrings us the deeper meaning of \u003ci\u003eThe Tibetan Book of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e: the past is a memory, the future is a projection, the present is gone before we can see it.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmie Barrodale\u003c\/b\u003e's stories and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. In 2012 she was awarded \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e's Plimpton Prize for Fiction for her story \"William Wei.\" She is the author of \u003ci\u003eYou Are Having a Good Time: Stories\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.17 x 8.46 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47266614640889,"sku":"9780374617349","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/eY0tFXOpPP9780374617349.webp?v=1768852263","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/trip-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}