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Beschreibung

A mortally funny story of a mother's quest to save her son against all odds

'Transcendent and dazzlingly weird' New York Times

'Beautifully crafted, hard-boiled fun' Nell Zink


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.

But Sandra soon discovers that a mother's work is never done, not even when you're dead. 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.

'Brilliantly strange, funny and moving' New Yorker

'I was captivated and charmed for its entirety' Adelaide Faith


'Ultimately a story of her mother's love for her unique offspring' Daily Mail

'An extraordinary novel' Akhil Sharma

A mortally funny story of a mother's quest to save her son against all odds

'Transcendent and dazzlingly weird' New York Times

'Beautifully crafted, hard-boiled fun' Nell Zink


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.

But Sandra soon discovers that a mother's work is never done, not even when you're dead. 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.

'Brilliantly strange, funny and moving' New Yorker

'I was captivated and charmed for its entirety' Adelaide Faith


'Ultimately a story of her mother's love for her unique offspring' Daily Mail

'An extraordinary novel' Akhil Sharma

Über den Autor
Amie Barrodale is the author of the short story collection You Are Having a Good Time. She received the Plimpton Prize in 2012. A teaching-writing fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she received the Maytag Fellowship from them in 2014. Her writing has appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review and other publications. She is a former staff writer for The Onion and a former Fiction Editor at Vice.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781787335943
ISBN-10: 1787335941
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Barrodale, Amie
Hersteller: Random House UK Ltd
Jonathan Cape
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 217 x 136 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Amie Barrodale
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.02.2026
Gewicht: 0,302 kg
Artikel-ID: 134550566