Wednesday, September 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
 CLICK HERE TO RSVP _**RSVP is recommended but not required. Entry and seating are first-come, first-served. RSVPs do not guarantee entry to a full event.**_ **A woman embarks on an odyssey through the afterlife to help her son, who is literally and figuratively lost at sea: a hilarious and deeply moving voyage of the body and the mind.** Sandra dies suddenly at a death conference in Nepal attended by academics and mystics. Days later, back in America, her teenage son, Trip, runs away with a man who picks him up on the side of a road. Sandra tries to get a message back to Trip through the mystics, but the mystics are distracted, and her son and the strange man set out to sea. Amie Barrodale’s first novel features restless souls, Buddhist deities, divorcees in recovery programs, arguing academics, uncomprehending school principals, and treatment centers for troubled teenagers. It journeys from body to body, through life and death and back again. It tells the story of a mother and son who find other people hard to understand and who are themselves misunderstood. Guiding this wild, unpredictable journey is deep devotion: the desire to save a child and to be a good mother despite it all. Wide-eyed with wonder, blazingly funny and achingly moving, _Trip_ brings us the deeper meaning of _The Tibetan Book of the Dead_: the past is a memory, the future is a projection, the present is gone before we can see it. **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_. **Ottessa Moshfegh** is the author of six books of fiction, including "My Year of Rest and Relaxation," and, most recently, the novel “Lapvona.”