Interested in the intersection of Judaism, psychedelics, and ancestral trauma? Join Portland authors Seth Lorinczi and Vanessa Veselka for a very special discussion of Lorinczi’s new book Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir. 

The story of a marriage, a deep dive into Portland’s psychedelic underground, and an investigation into the impact of ancestral trauma, Death Trip is most of all a journey to confront the past in order to make sense of the present.

Haunted by the omissions in his family’s backstory, Seth Lorinczi is just trying to get through life. But when a midlife crisis threatens his marriage and an open-minded therapist suggests he try MDMA, he learns just how trippy a search for meaning can get. Eventually, the quest to exhume his family’s ghosts will take him halfway around the world.