Dwight Okita reads from his novel The Hope Store, at Women and Children First bookstore in Chicago, IL on January 11, 2018. He also answers Q&A with the standing room only audience.

Read an excerpt from The Hope Store in riksha.com’s V2.3.

About the Author & Reader
Dwight Okita (born August 26, 1958) is a Japanese-American novelist, poet, and playwright. His work reflects his experiences as a Japanese-American, a gay man, and a Nichiren Buddhist. He studied English literature at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His first book of poems, Crossing with the Light, was published by Tia Chucha Press in 1992. His novels include THE HOPE STORE (2017) and THE PROSPECT OF MY ARRIVAL (2011) which was a finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards. He won a Joseph Jefferson Award in 1996 for the collaborative play The Radiance of a Thousand Suns. His website is http://www.DwightOkita.com