The Hope Store

A poet and playwright, Dwight Okita’s debut novel, The Prospect of My Arrival, a finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards, was one of the more absorbing sci fi novels I’ve ever read. So, I was quite intrigued when I saw he had a new novel, The Hope Store. But First, THE BLURB: Two Asian Americ......more

The Hope Store is another wonderful title from Dwight Okita. The Prospect of My Arrival is one of my favorite novels, and The Hope Store showcases the same spare, poetic prose. I love when writers display artistic sensibility, and Okita is one of those word artists. The book follows Jada Upshaw, a wo......more

Review originally published at: [URL not allowed]-review-th... Jada Upshaw was born with a rare condition that causes negligible dopamine levels in the brain, meaning that Jada is unable to feel hope. After several suicide attempts, the opening of The Hope Store in her city seems to be the......more

( Format : Audiobook ) "A falling star, a constellation of possibilities." A strange and near mysterious book, written almost poetically, and exploring life, longing, love and desperation. Jada's life has been, and continues to be a miserable one, a life, despite the possibilities offered to her, wh......more

5 stars for the story and idea. 3 stars for execution, for an overall 4 stars. I loved the uniqueness of a store about hope and how hope, and the lack thereof, can so tremendously affect a life. However, I felt the book could have used another edit in places. For instance, the story is told with alt......more