A mortally funny debut novel of a mother's love that defies all odds, including death

A mortally funny story of a mother's love that defies all odds, including death

'Amie Barrodale is the most important writer of my generation' OTTESSA MOSHFEGH

Three days after I died, my son ran away.

Sandra dies unexpectedly at a conference in Nepal. Across the world, her teenage son, Trip, has run away from a centre for troubled youth in the North American desert.

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.

'An extraordinary novel' AKHIL SHARMA

'I've read nothing like it' CHRISTOPHER BOLLEN

'As absurd, tender and moving as life itself' BookPage