{"product_id":"2940154478554","title":"The Becomer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[The Becomer] effectively challenges everything we may think we know about identity, self-awareness, interconnection, and isolation. This is a stunning short story\/novella that makes the reader really sit up, take notice, and ask questions about the perception of reality and life.\" —Grant Leishman (Readers' Favorite®)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“David Michael Miller truly is a fine writer!” —Sig Gissler (former administrator of the Pulitzer Prize)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEver wish you could be someone else? Ever wish you could be everyone else?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his brilliant literary debut, David Michael Miller explores themes of identity, isolation, interconnection, and self-transcendence through the story of X. X begins the same as anyone else: an innocent infant, whose future is rife with uncertainty and possibility. But as X progresses, he is forced to confront the inescapability of his individuality with a deep-seated dream of becoming someone else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a baby to a boy, a world to a universe — THE BECOMER chronicles the numerous transformations of X as he journeys from being no one to becoming everyone. Equal parts science-fiction, cultural commentary, philosophical excursion, and spiritual examination, THE BECOMER is both a thought-provoking and enjoyable read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiller plunges us into an alternative 21st-century world, at once familiar and strange. A world where emerging technologies offer unimaginable and awe-inspiring possibilities, giving way to an examination of the limits of self-knowledge, the differences that make us unique, and the human essence that binds us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho is X? X is both every one and no one. X is definable by its indefinability. Consistent in its inconsistency. Constant in its becoming. X is You. And Me. And Him. And Her. And Zir. And on, and on, and…\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Michael Miller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082941808880,"sku":"2940154478554","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940154478554_p0.jpg?v=1764113564","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940154478554","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}