The Longest Road: Healing Across Generations

By Sasha Perelman

“A brave, poignant page-turner… powerful, potent, and riveting.”

— Regena Thomashauer, New York Times bestselling author

Some wounds do not begin with us. They travel quietly through generations.

What are you carrying that does not belong to you?

In the depths of the Mexican jungle, Sasha Perelman confronts a question that echoes across generations. As she sits with powerful plant medicines, the carefully constructed story of her life begins to unravel, revealing inherited patterns of fear, scarcity, and survival passed down through the women in her family.

Her grandmother’s fierce practicality was forged by war and grief.

Her mother’s survival-driven control grew from the pressure to endure.

And Sasha herself has spent a lifetime chasing achievement, trying to prove her worth without ever knowing why.

But the medicine reveals something deeper.

Through vivid visions and ancestral memories, Sasha is pulled into the hidden history of her Soviet Jewish lineage. She witnesses acts of defiant courage that shaped her family’s escape from the former USSR:

An aunt who transforms a pair of brown leather boots into a brilliant strategy for securing exit visas.

A grandfather whose final sacrifice opens the path to freedom in America.

Generations of women forced to choose survival over their dreams.

As Sasha confronts the death of her mother, her grandmother’s sharpened love, and the weight of being the first American-born child, the medicine reveals a truth she has long sensed but never fully named:

We inherit our family’s pain, but we are not bound to repeat it.

Moving between Soviet and American identities, between past and present, and between survival and becoming, The Longest Road is a powerful exploration of generational trauma, ancestral memory, and the courage it takes to rewrite the stories we inherit.

With honesty, depth, and poetic precision, Sasha Perelman reveals that while trauma travels through bloodlines, so do resilience, imagination, transformation, and love.

For anyone seeking to honor their ancestors while breaking free from inherited pain, The Longest Road offers a moving invitation to remember, release, and reclaim your place in the lineage.

Because healing generational trauma is not accidental.

It is a conscious choice.

Paperback 
221 pages