{"product_id":"trip-by-amie-barrodale-9781787335943","title":"Trip","description":"A mortally funny debut novel of a mother's love that defies all odds, including death\n\nA mortally funny story of a mother's quest to save her son against all odds\n\n'Transcendent and dazzlingly weird' New York Times\n\n'Amie Barrodale is the most important writer of my generation' Ottessa Moshfegh\n\nSandra 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.\n\nBut 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.\n\nAs 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.\n\nFrom 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.\n\n'Beautifully crafted, hard-boiled fun' Nell Zink\n\n'I was captivated and charmed for its entirety' Adelaide Faith\n\n'An extraordinary novel' Akhil Sharma","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47289101058284,"sku":"9781787335943","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/656510e419ba9ffc154596a2ced43948.jpg?v=1770601466","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/trip-by-amie-barrodale-9781787335943","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}