Road Trip with Mom
Review of the Amazon Original Stories audiobook (April 16, 2024) released simultaneously with the Audible Originals audiobook.

Born to southern parents, I am a suburban Maryland boy who now lives in San Francisco. My experience of America is limited to ’80s malls, pickled watermelon rind, Broadway shows, and fog; it is akin to owning only volume J–K of an encyclopedia.

This is a short memoir about a road trip from when the author travelled home to San Francisco from a mentoring job in Kansas and his mother asked to join him on the journey. Greer arranges for stays in out of the way kitschy tourist places where they sleep in anything from tents to teepees. Along the way they visit sites such as the Grand Canyon. Greer's mother is up for all of it including indulging her son's penchant for occasionally wearing a fried egg costume. Overall a lovely tale of mother and son bonding.

The Kindle edition includes several selfie photos taken along the journey.

Trivia and Links
Andrew Sean Greer is the author of several novels, the most popular of which is Less (Arthur Less #1, 2017) which won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His most recent novel is Less Is Lost (Arthur Less #2, 2022).

You can watch for current and past Amazon Original Stories which are usually paired with their Audible Original narrations at an Amazon page here (link goes to Amazon US, adjust for your own country or region). ( )

Thank you NetGalley and Amazon Original Stories for the chance to read and review this.

Honestly, it was just okay. While Greer's mom is fascinating, I wonder if he really was able to describe her. The road trip felt dry at times and he wasn't able to make it seem like that intense an experience even when it probably was.

However, I did just find int that "Peter, Paul and Mary" was a band. I always thought it was just Britney. ( )