Joumana Khatib

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.

This is a novel.

Although it quotes heavily from the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

This is a novel.

It follows a documentarian who goes to Nepal to sort of capture a Buddhist scholar's conference.

She slips on a hairbrush and dies.

That's not a spoiler.

What she does in this sort of limbo of the bardo is that she checks in on her son who has some, you know...

He has some differences and he's going on a trip of his own.

Like every page is a surprise.

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.

And you don't have to be a parent to like it.

I'm going to go with To Kill a Mockingbird.

These are insane categories.

It's like, oh, you know, what it means to be a man.

You know what?

I'm going to say masculinity.