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Trip
- Author
- Amie Barrodale
- Narrator
- Eunice Wong
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 12 February 2026
- Run Time
- 7 hours 6 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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A mortally funny story of a mother's quest to save her son against all odds
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. 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.
'Transcendent and dazzlingly weird' New York Times
'Amie Barrodale is the most important writer of my generation' Ottessa Moshfegh
'Beautifully crafted, hard-boiled fun' Nell Zink
'I was captivated and charmed for its entirety' Adelaide Faith
'An extraordinary novel' Akhil Sharma
© Amie Barrodale 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
Critics Review
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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
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Beautifully crafted, hard-boiled fun. Trip is a good time
Nell Zink
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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
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What a brilliant, funny, beautiful, f*cked-up, heart-smashing novel
Sam Lipsyte
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Phenomenal and unpredictable, Trip is like nothing else I've read in a long time. I was hooked from the beginning and on the edge of my seat throughout. I loved this incredible novel
Ana Kinsella
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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
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Such a fun, surprising and interesting novel. I was captivated and charmed for its entirety; by the absurd humour at the death conference, by the main character's scenes in the bardo – the crazy sexual interlude when she borrows the body of a dental patient on nitrous especially. I was moved, too, by Barrodale's rendering of the complex emotions that come with a parent’s inevitable loss of control.
Adelaide Faith
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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
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Blending humor and Buddhism, Barrodale’s debut novel will resonate with fans of afterlife fiction
Booklist
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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
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Details
- Author
- Amie Barrodale
- Narrator
- Eunice Wong
- Duration
- 7 hours 6 minutes
- Release Date
- 12 February 2026
- ISBN
- 9781529970654
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Humorous fiction, Magical realism, Narrative theme: journeys and voyages, Narrative theme: love / relationships
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.A mortally funny story of a mother's quest to save her son against all oddsSandra 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. 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.'Transcendent and dazzlingly weird' New York Times'Amie Barrodale is the most important writer of my generation' Ottessa Moshfegh'Beautifully crafted, hard-boiled fun' Nell Zink'I was captivated and charmed for its entirety' Adelaide Faith'An extraordinary novel' Akhil Sharma© Amie Barrodale 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
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