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Overview

A human embryo is allowed to preview the world before deciding whether to be born. The embryo named Prospect will meet a range of people to help him make up his mind. Among them, a greeting card writer, a sociopath, and Prospect's very own inscrutable parents.Trish Mesmer is the scientist charged with counseling Prospect, though she has more hidden agendas then a centipede has legs. At the same time, Trevor Grueling grows increasingly committed to derailing the bio-experiment all together. This speculative tale is served up with equal helpings of whimsy, dread, and hope.At heart, this is literary fiction with a slightly sci-fi premise. The book may not appeal to hardcore sci-fi readers. Those who appreciate the trippy, modern world on display in the movie "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" or "Being There" may find themselves at home.** AUTHOR NOTE. In May 2013, the author is releasing a revised edition of PROSPECT which includes book reviews, discussion questions, and a preview of the opening 20 pages of his next novel THE HOPE STORE. Also the book has been re-proofed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781460959893
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	09/16/2011
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	306
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Dwight Okita lives in Chicago where he designs websites and drinks way too much coffee. He has a great circle of friends & colleagues. His poetry book Crossing with the Light was published by Tia Chucha Press. His plays "The Rainy Season" and "Richard Speck" are published and were performed to acclaim in Chicago. THE PROSPECT OF MY ARRIVAL was chosen by Penguin editors as one of the Top Ten novels of 5,000 in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards contest in 2008.

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Joni Rodgers

The premise is genius, and the beautiful writing totally delivered the goods. (From Joni Rodgers, author of Bald in the Land of Big Hair, New York Times bestselling author)

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Editorial Reviews

Prospect, so named, he tells us, because “people have high hopes for me,” has a lot on his young shoulders. As the embryonic star of the “Pre-born Project,” a scientific venture funded by “Big Farm Technologies,” he has three weeks to preview the world before deciding if he wants to be born. To help in his decision, Prospect gets to meet five people: his mother; a happy person; someone who wishes he were never born; etc. Despite his in-embryo tutoring from the “CyberSavant,” Prospect (incarnated on Earth in a borrowed 20-year-old body) is a naïf, and much of the book consists of people explaining things to him: the project, adoption, empathy, the wonder that is coffee, the wonder that is sex, the complexities of love. For real-world readers, many of these narratives are less than new. Meanwhile, everyone Prospect meets has an agenda—and Okita, busily planting all kinds of improbable scenarios and life lessons in Prospect’s path, is, unfortunately, no exception. At the end, when Prospect makes his decision, it’s hard to care; he’s sweet, but his pre-born experience seems a little too prefab.

Publishers Weekly

I'm not a science fiction girl, so I thought this book might not be quite up my alley. However, I was delighted this morning on the train to figure out it's quite emotional, and there are moments when Okita is just brilliant...

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