Acid Test: LSD vs. LDS

Growing up Mormon during America's early-1980s satanic panic, Bigelow escapes the religion's bland conformity by playing Dungeons & Dragons. After graduating from high school in 1984, he dives into sex, drugs, and the counterculture via Salt Lake City's punk and new-wave scenes, as echoed from London, New York, and especially Los Angeles.

As Bigelow explores the underground, he rejects myths of supernatural good vs. evil, living instead by the D&D concept of chaotic neutrality. During LSD trips, however, he starts sensing an unseen dimension. Then Stephen King's post-apocalyptic novel The Stand gets him reconsidering good vs. evil. After an alarming otherworldly attack, can Bigelow find spiritual protection in Mormonism's processed, regimented, corporate culture?

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Zarahemla Books
Published: 01/14/2020
ISBN: 9780999347232
Pages: 298
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.67d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2020