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“The Mostly True Tale” Breaks the Mold—A Fever Dream Memoir Bound For the Screen
A wild, nonlinear odyssey of collapse, reinvention, and spiritual clarity gets ready for its next life—film.

Bangkok / Los Angeles — June 2025
A hallucinatory memoir. A broken-compass love story. A spiritual pilgrimage gone wildly off course—The Mostly True Tale of Getting Roofied in Tokyo and Waking Up Married in Rural Thailand is the kind of story that lingers long after the final page. Told through the gravel-voiced narration of Oscar Slamp—equal parts friend, eulogist, and unreliable guide—the book is gaining traction not only with readers, but with filmmakers and producers searching for a fresh, literary adaptation.

“Shot like a fever dream. Told like a eulogy.”

The story follows Willie Lyonsan, a man on the verge, who, after years of sideways love affairs, false starts, and hard landings sets off on a solo soul-search across Japan. Instead, he’s unexpectedly roofied, inexplicably rescued, and miraculously rerouted.

He wakes up in rural Thailand with a wife, a stepson, a tattoo, and no memory of how he got there. What follows is a nonlinear unraveling of love, loss, absurdity, and a kind of accidental grace.

“Eat Pray Love—if it were written by Hunter S. Thompson in a Wild Turkey blackout. That’s how the one-pager puts it. The comparison is earned.

Beta reader reviews have been powerful and personal. “I cried, I laughed, I loved… I don’t want it to end,” wrote one. Another called it “spiritual, healing… the kind of story that helps people remember who they are.”

Oscar Slamp is the voice behind the story. Whether he’s the author, a witness, or something else entirely is up for debate. All inquiries so far have been met with the same line: “Let Oscar tell it.”

Adaptation Rights Now Available
All film, television, and audio rights are currently available. The full manuscript is ready for review upon request. The author is open to creative collaboration and interpretation.

“It’s not a memoir. It’s not fiction. It’s something stranger—and far more cinematic. It’s the kind of story that only makes sense on screen—told in fractured memories, overheard conversations, and radiant collapse.”

The full book will be released July 12, 2025. Advance reading copies are available on request.

Contact:
Oscar Slamp
realoscarslamp@gmail.com
oscarslamp.com

Note:

Word count: 430

Tags:

#Memoir, #IndieFilm, #BookAdaptation, #LiteraryFiction, #TravelStory, #SpiritualAwakening, #NonlinearNarrative, #HunterSThompson, #A24Style