Prescription for a Superior Existence - Tapa dura

"With Prescription for a Superior Existence, Josh Emmons has created a wholly original, brave, and disturbingly plausible novel, an existential, theological, fin du monde thriller about star-crossed orphans, twenty-first-century cults, environmental angst, and the extremes and consequences of desire." -- James P. Othmer, author of The Futurist

"In Prescription for a Superior Existence, Josh Emmons' hero Jack Smith -- a man of questionable appetites, high skepticism, and touching vulnerability -- falls through the rabbit-hole of new-fangled California religion. The result is an acidly hilarious, tightly plotted adventure that folds big themes, romantic moments, and a little thing called the end of the world into its pages. Both a wicked skewering of religious cults and a finely wrought testament to their power, this novel reads like Raymond Chandler rollicking through the house of L. Ron Hubbard. It's as probing and smart as it is moving, hopeful, and sweet." -- Alix Ohlin, author of Babylon and Other Stories

Inadvertently falling in love with the daughter of a religious cult leader, San Francisco businessman Jack Smith is abducted and subsequently indoctrinated within the cult's confines, where he experiences a profound sense of community before becoming wary of its plans for a possible group suicide. By the author of The Loss of Leon Meed. 20,000 first printing.