Motel Nirvana: dreaming of the New Age in the American desert

Now available in ebook format. 'Motel Nirvana' is Melanie McGrath's first published book.

A book about the New Age movement and its American heartland. It concerns the author's travels around the south-western United States of Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, and her encounters with some of that region's most unusual communities and individuals.

'Motel Nirvana' won the 1996 John Llewellyn Rhys 'Mail on Sunday' prize for the best new British writer under 35.