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Advance Praise ""Raw and funny, yet graceful and astonishingly precise, Trip is a book with the power to resonate in the most intimate ways for any reader. I read it in awe, as if Barrodale had written it just for me."" --Ottessa Moshfegh, author of Lapvona and My Year of Rest and Relaxation ""Amie Barrodale's Trip is an extraordinary novel. It is as if Kurt Vonnegut and Hunter S. Thompson have joined together to write a tender story of a recently dead mom who wanders the bardo but is always drawn back to her imperiled son, an autistic teenager who is on a boat with a stranger, lost at sea."" --Akhil Sharma, author of Family Life ""Trip is an extraordinary novel. I've read nothing like it. It is crazy, wise, sensitive, funny, and terrifying--all those things put together so fluidly you can't pick one apart from the other. Like all the best physical, chemical, emotional, and existential trips I've taken, this one blows the mind and shocks the heart."" --Christopher Bollen, author of Havoc ""The wild and quirky debut novel from Barrodale ranges across two continents and the afterlife to tell the story of a mother and son's failure to connect . . . Trip's adventure story is great fun, and Barrodale's depiction of the afterlife is amusing and wonderfully surreal. It's a hoot."" --Publishers Weekly

""Much of the novel's emotional heft comes from Barrodale's portrait of Sandra as a mother trying, from beyond the veil, to resume the role she inhabited in life. Her memories of Trip--his innocent questions, his tiny rebellions, his larger eruptions of anger--are precisely drawn, and the neurodivergent child is rendered with loving clarity . . . Trip doesn't tug its protagonist into the afterlife; it loops her back and back into the bewilderment of living."" --Rhoda Feng, The Washington Post ""A transcendent and dazzlingly weird novel about disconnection and difference . . . The novel's strangeness comes to seem entirely intentional, and brilliant. Trip captures something of how it might feel to have your brain work differently from everyone else's, the loneliness and alienation of it. The story's inscrutable moments even take on a sort of beauty. Like Sandra, the reader is asked to let go of the pinched need to have it all make sense, all the time--to instead open our eyes and simply see what's there, in all its irreducible mystery."" --Chelsea Leu, The New York Times Book Review ""A worthy addition to the small but ancient genre of literary works that explore the afterlife . . . Barrodale demonstrates a remarkable ear for dialogue that echoes the absurdities of communication . . . And, despite Sandra's wild travails, her frail, seemingly inextinguishable first person point of view--the irreducible 'I'--persists. As does Barrodale's nimbly ironic omniscient narration. When the two combine, it demonstrates that though love may not be stronger than death, fiction can at least make it mighty entertaining."" --Peter Keough, Artsfuse ""Raw and funny, yet graceful and astonishingly precise, Trip is a book with the power to resonate in the most intimate ways for any reader. I read it in awe, as if Barrodale had written it just for me."" --Ottessa Moshfegh, author of Lapvona and My Year of Rest and Relaxation ""Amie Barrodale's Trip is an extraordinary novel. It is as if Kurt Vonnegut and Hunter S. Thompson have joined together to write a tender story of a recently dead mom who wanders the bardo but is always drawn back to her imperiled son, an autistic teenager who is on a boat with a stranger, lost at sea."" --Akhil Sharma, author of Family Life ""Trip is an extraordinary novel. I've read nothing like it. It is crazy, wise, sensitive, funny, and terrifying--all those things put together so fluidly you can't pick one apart from the other. Like all the best physical, chemical, emotional, and existential trips I've taken, this one blows the mind and shocks the heart."" --Christopher Bollen, author of Havoc ""The wild and quirky debut novel from Barrodale ranges across two continents and the afterlife to tell the story of a mother and son's failure to connect . . . Trip's adventure story is great fun, and Barrodale's depiction of the afterlife is amusing and wonderfully surreal. It's a hoot."" --Publishers Weekly ""Blending humor and Buddhism, Barrodale's debut novel will resonate with fans of afterlife fiction."" --Booklist ""A rather unstoppable read . . . Barrodale is incredibly skillful at evoking a wide range of emotions in a limited span of pages. Though dark, the novel is packed with wit and humor, and comes to a surprising conclusion that will especially satisfy parents who have attempted to impart a life lesson to a child. Trip is as absurd, tender and moving as life itself."" --BookPage

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Amie Barrodale's stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's Magazine, and other publications. In 2012 she was awarded The Paris Review's Plimpton Prize for Fiction for her story ""William Wei."" She is the author of You Are Having a Good Time: Stories.

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