The Road to Wellville is a hilarious satire that explores the absurdities of the 1907 health craze. With a Dickensian cast of characters, readers will be entertained by the madcap antics that unfold at Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's infamous Battle Creek Spa. This book is recommended for anyone who enjoys a good laugh and is interested in turn-of-the-century health fads.

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Will Lightbody is a man with a stomach ailment whose only sin is loving his wife, Eleanor, too much. Eleanor is a health nut of the first stripe, and when in 1907 she journeys to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's infamous Battle Creek Spa to live out the vegetarian ethos, poor Will goes too. So begins T. Coraghessan Boyle's wickedly comic look at turn-of-the-century fanatics in search of the magic pill to prolong their lives - or the profit to be had from manufacturing it. Brimming with a Dickensian cast of characters and laced with wildly wonderful plot twists, Jane Smiley in The New York Times Book Review called The Road to Wellville "a marvel, enjoyable from beginning to end."

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