"Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir" by Seth Lorinczi

Coming May 21, 2024. SHIPPING EARLY MAY

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 underground to the darkest days of World War II. By turns wrenching and hilarious, it asks whether trauma can be inherited and, if so, if psychedelics can help us heal.

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 learn the truth will take him halfway around the world to an epic showdown with his family’s ghosts.

“In this deeply researched, beautifully written, and passionately lived memoir of intergenerational trauma, Lorinczi leads the reader on a double journey: Into the harrowing bloodlands of 20th-century fascism and, almost as scary, the miasmic inner life of 21st-century, post-punk manhood. This is a good trip in the most profound sense.”  
-Jon Raymond, Denial

“Seth Lorinczi’s journey through MDMA therapy takes him into a labyrinth of family secrets and ancestral trauma. The story of what he finds there—and how it changes him—is as gripping and propulsive as a crime novel. I was captivated the whole way through.”
-Leni Zumas, Red Clocks

“A very unique, courageous, and deeply moving book; I have personally never seen anything else like it….a journey through our individual and collective trauma in order to find the hidden treasure enfolded within the darkness—our creative self. Bravo!”
-Paul Levy, Undreaming Wetiko

“[A] clear-eyed and tender investigation of family history, intergenerational trauma, and the power of psychedelics to help transcend the past.”
-Rebecca Clarren, The Cost of Free Land