When three-year-old Maya cultivates a friendship with Dodo, a disruptive imaginary buddy, Edelman and her husband worry about how to handle Dodo's apparent hold over her. In an unlikely choice they take her to healers in Belize, hoping the shaman might help banish Dodo and all that he represents. This deeply emotional memoir is the account of their magical week in Central America, where this mainstream mother found herself making unorthodox choices and learning about the things that possess, destroy, and heal us all.