Trapped in a toxic marriage, a young Black mother meets a Peruvian shaman who helps to liberate her into a higher calling. A memoir by Vonetta Taylor, The Shaman’s Apprentice follows the life of Vonetta, a young, black single mother who became a self-proclaimed atheist at the age of 16 only to later find God at 24 when he speaks to her while pregnant and awakens her gift of clairaudience.