Trade paperback, 356 pages

available now on this website (official publishing date is November 10, 2020)

Lightbulb Coffee takes you on a wild ride through counter-cultural America. It tells the true story of a farm boy transplanted from the deep south to San Francisco in the Sixties. Rejecting his parent’s world at 18, John ends up homeless after after his family sails off to Hong Kong to be Baptist Missionaries.

Hitchhiking back and forth through North America, he comes close to starving and freezing. He gradually learns how to support himself, attract a woman, and escape the toxic military world in which he grew up. 

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Lightbulb Coffee– you’ll never forget where the title comes from – sweeps you into an amazing trek through a magical time. Come along on John Schnick’s kaleidoscopic trip, beginning with a repressive boyhood he escapes – breaking out, turning on, encountering the emblematic poets and musicians of the era, falling in love (several times), conquering mountains – literally.  Schnick is everything you want in a fellow traveler – funny, sharp-eyed, kind, always willing to take a risk. You will love this!

—Mary Jo McConahay, Author of The Tango War, The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds, and Riches of Latin America During World War II