On the Road to Heaven
by Coke Newell
Price: $1.99 USD. 122250 words.
Published by Zarahemla Books on March 31, 2010. Fiction.
In a style reminiscent of Jack Kerouac, Coke Newell's groundbreaking autobiographical novel traces an LSD-to-LDS pilgrimage across two continents. From Colorado's 1970s hippie heyday to the coca fields of Colombia, it's a journey through Thoreau ascetics, Ram Dass Taoism, and Edward Abbey monkey-wrenching to the mission fields of one of the world's most conservative contemporary religions.
Member Since: March 31, 2010
Coke Newell
Biography
A former tree-hugging, Zen-spouting, vegetarian Colorado mountain hippie, the author later worked for more than a decade as an LDS Church media relations officer at world headquarters in Salt Lake City.
His byline or citation on the topic of Mormonism has appeared in more than a thousand North American periodicals, including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times. Newell's award-winning journalism and fiction have appeared in such publications as Columbia Journalism Review, Grit, Ensign, True West, Irreantum, and the Rocky Mountain News. He lives with his wife and children in rural northern Utah.
His byline or citation on the topic of Mormonism has appeared in more than a thousand North American periodicals, including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times. Newell's award-winning journalism and fiction have appeared in such publications as Columbia Journalism Review, Grit, Ensign, True West, Irreantum, and the Rocky Mountain News. He lives with his wife and children in rural northern Utah.