Trip : a novel

"A mother embarks on an odyssey through the afterlife to save her son, who is literally and figuratively lost at sea: a hilarious, gut-wrenching first novel from a bracingly original 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 mystic...