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.