The memoir starts in San Francisco in 2019. Single, childless, and motherless, Christina Vo is about to turn 40 when she attends her first ayahuasca ceremony. The result is a transformative road trip through the Southwest that ends up lasting two years—a pilgrimage of sorts for the spiritual-but-not-religious generation.
One of this memoir’s distinctive features is that it doesn’t culminate with the author in a romantic relationship; instead, the book ends with Vo claiming her own spiritual authority. And this is the first memoir, as far as we know, by a Vietnamese-American woman who is defying traditional expectations and illuminating a single Asian woman's experience of spiritual seeking in the New Age landscape.
The memoir starts in San Francisco in 2019. Single, childless, and motherless, Christina Vo is about to turn 40 when she attends her first ayahuasca ceremony. The result is a transformative road trip through the Southwest that ends up lasting two years—a pilgrimage of sorts for the spiritual-but-not-religious generation.
One of this memoir’s distinctive features is that it doesn’t culminate with the author in a romantic relationship; instead, the book ends with Vo claiming her own spiritual authority. And this is the first memoir, as far as we know, by a Vietnamese-American woman who is defying traditional expectations and illuminating a single Asian woman's experience of spiritual seeking in the New Age landscape.