{"product_id":"trip","title":"Trip","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA mortally funny story of a mother's quest to save her son against all odds\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Transcendent and dazzlingly weird' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Amie Barrodale is the most important writer of my generation' Ottessa Moshfegh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSandra 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Beautifully crafted, hard-boiled fun' Nell Zink\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I was captivated and charmed for its entirety' Adelaide Faith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An extraordinary novel' Akhil Sharma\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amie Barrodale","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67792589684914,"sku":"9781529963991","price":295.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9781529963991.jpg?v=1792803970","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/trip","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}