When a midlife crisis threatens his marriage and an open-minded therapist offers him MDMA, the author learns just how trippy a search for meaning can get.
Like many children of immigrants, Seth Lorinczi knew only the major plot points of his Hungarian family's backstory. But when he stumbles upon his father's long-forgotten memoirs, he realizes the
antisemitic violence and trauma
suffered by his
Holocaust Survivor forebears
might be guiding his worldview and actions in unseen ways. Eventually, the quest to learn the truth will take him halfway around the world to an epic showdown with his family's ghosts.
A marriage story, a search for meaning in the wake of the Holocaust, and a struggle to release the weight of ancestral trauma,
Death Trip
takes readers from the ayahuasca basements of Portland's psychedelic therapy underground to the streets and alleyways of Budapest during the darkest days of World War II. By turns wrenching and hilarious, it asks
"can trauma be inherited"
and, if so, "
can psychedelics help us heal?
"
Offering a uniquely literary perspective on the dawning field of psychedelic therapy,
is a harrowing but ultimately triumphant story about overcoming fear, trauma, and disconnection. Fans of
books on psychedelics
and
books on family secrets
will thrill to this quest to learn the truth about the past in order to make sense of the present.