It takes place during a road trip in Switzerland with a man and his 80 year old mother.

[2][3] Upon its 2024 publication in the United Kingdom with Serpent's Tail, the Washington Post wrote "Quite simply a joy to read ...

The narrator's mother is an unforgettable literary creation and Eurotrash is a brilliant and unsettling reckoning with history and memory, and with the ambiguities inherent in the art of writing fiction", while The Times, as well as the Financial Times chose the novel as one of the best books of 2024.

Marcel Theroux wrote in The Guardian "Short but hefty, Eurotrash is a book about ageing that’s steeped in a guilty knowingness about privilege, wealth and the 20th century.

There’s something bracing about the narrator’s pained awareness that if there’s such a thing as the wrong side of history, he and his family are firmly on it.