On the Road to Heaven by Coke Newell

Title: On the Road to Heaven

Author: Coke Newell

Publisher: Zarahemla Books

Release Date: August 13, 2007

ISBN: 978-0-9787971-3-3

Size: 8.5x5.5; 348 pages

Genre: Historical, Memoir




An autobiographical novel by Coke Newell

From the author of Latter Days: A Guided Tour Through Six Billion Years of Mormonism comes this exuberant and groundbreaking autobiographical novel about the modern Mormon convert experience. Revealing the author's hard-won path to meaning, faith, and forgiveness, On the Road to Heaven is a love story about a girl and a guy and their search for heaven—a lotta love, a little heaven, and one heck of a ride in between.

In a style reminiscent of and offering homage to Jack Kerouac, On the Road to Heaven traces an LSD-to-LDS pilgrimage across the geographic and cultural landscape of two continents in the late twentieth century. From the 1970s hippie heyday of the Colorado mountains 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 fastest-growing—and most trenchantly conservative—religions.

Few stories have ever described a more unusual road to redemption.