Book Event: Amie Barrodale with Christine Smallwood

Book Launch: Amie Barrodale presents Trip

In conversation with Christine Smallwood

Writer Amie Barrodale launches her debut novel Trip, a hilarious and deeply moving voyage of the body and the mind, at Greenlight. Wide-eyed with wonder, blazingly funny and achingly emotive, Trip follows a woman as she travels through the afterlife to help her son, who is literally and figuratively lost at sea. Featuring restless souls, Buddhist deities, divorcees in recovery programs, arguing academics, uncomprehending school principals, and treatment centers for troubled teenagers, Barrodale's debut journeys from body to body, through life and death and back again; and tells the story of a mother and son who find other people hard to understand and who are themselves misunderstood. Christine Smallwood, author of The Life of the Mind and La Captive and editor at Harper's Magazine, joins Barrodale for a conversation on the book's wild and unpredictable journey, before an audience Q&A and signing.

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