After I lost my daughter Dalia, I went looking for her anywhere she might still be found.

The Magnificent Maybe is the story of the six months I spent chasing one question: How do we stay connected to the people we've lost? I said yes to almost everything — medium sessions, neuroscience research, Mayan fire ceremonies, grieftech, plant medicine, grief rituals from cultures around the world — and I tried to hold onto both my skepticism and my openness the whole way through.

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This book weaves investigative reporting with personal memoir. In each chapter, I pair what happened to me with the bigger question behind it: what do we actually know about consciousness, about tradition, about staying close to someone after they're gone. I talked to mediums and psychics as an honest skeptic. I talked to clergy, scientists, and spiritualists who've spent their lives thinking about what lies beyond the veil. And slowly, I found some rituals and approaches that made me change the way I think about the world and what might come next.