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The book was highlighted as an anti‑algorithmic novel that captivated the speaker’s consciousness, following a documentary filmmaker’s death in Nepal and his son’s liminal experience while quoting the Tibetan Book of the Dead. It was praised for its hysterically written style and noted as deserving far more recognition.
Episode: Sunday Special: Gifting Books for the Holidays
This novel was described as an anti-algorithmic book that kidnapped the speaker's consciousness, following a documentarian who dies in Nepal and then checks in on her son from the bardo (limbo). It quotes heavily from the Tibetan Book of the Dead and is hysterically written.
I happen to know a lot of snobs in New York City. So I actually am looking at Trip by Amy Baradale. This is the book that kidnapped my consciousness and still has it as far as I'm concerned because it touches on the finer points of Buddhist ideas about life after death.
It's hysterically written. I don't think Amy Baradale is as known as she ought to be. And it's just, like, this is, if you want to talk about, like, anti-algorithmic books, this is the definition of that.