Prayers With a Side of Cashfollows a filmmaker’s road trip from New York to Los Angeles, capturing moments through a series of poems that reframe the classic American road trip through a female perspective. Along highways and rest stops, encounters with hitchhikers, strangers, ghosts, and landscapes inscribed with symbols and contradictions explore belonging in a country in flux. The collection asks what it means to travel not only through space but through the shifting stories that shape us. Written in a moment of cultural uncertainty, the poems serve as both a personal pilgrimage and exploration of American identity, accompanied by a soundtrack that dares believe there is hope to be found in the sweetness of life.