Prosperity: The Series

by Adam Joseph

“What is the measure of a life? The instrument of the mind is ill equipped to find simple answers.” Andrew Douglas was born into a world of wealth and opportunity, Robert Littleton a world of harsh circumstance, and yet they spent most of their lives only miles apart. Adam Joseph’s series “Prosperity” is an epic tale that follows the lives of two families from the early 1980’s to the late 2000’s. The reader is immediately thrust into the juxtaposition between each family’s circumstance as they grapple with success, failure, good-fortune, loss, birth, death and everything in between. The backdrop to the story is the rolling hills and valleys of the Old Mission Peninsula, which sits at the 45th parallel north, just outside of Traverse City, Michigan. There has long been a juxtaposition, there, in those lands, between the cherry farm and the vineyard. Prosperity is a tale that is meant to explore this kind of juxtaposition and what it means to create a life; what it is to dream and yet deal with the obstacles and hard choices along the way.

This exclusive print of the “Prosperity Series” brings all three of the “Prosperity” books together. The reader can seamlessly transition from “Bud Break” to “Fruit Set” to “Harvest” and enjoy the full arch of the Douglas and Littleton story in one volume.

"Bud Break" is the first book in the "Prosperity Series”. The reader enters the story of the Douglas and Littleton family's in the early 1980's with the birth of Andrew and Robert. The story follows the boys into adolescence and as they come to the early decisions about their lives and who they will become.

"Fruit Set" is the second book in the "Prosperity Series” and picks up Andrew Douglas and Robert Littleton's stories after leaving their hometown of Traverse City, MI. The story sees them on wayward journey's in search of themselves, with something always calling them home.

"Harvest" is the third and final book in the "Prosperity Series”. Andrew and Robert have both come of age, found partners worth making a life with and are ready to pursue their dreams. As the story unfolds, it becomes increasingly clear that while their dreams are vastly different, they are ultimately intertwined by the land they knew as children.

576 pages, Paperback

Published July 21, 2021

About the author

Adam Joseph delivers thoughtful answers to questions about existence, what it means to be human, consciousness, and much more in his groundbreaking works of philosophy.

He is an author, poet, and philosopher in his own right. He peels back the otherwise banal, ordinary veneer of everyday life to reveal a complex, tormented, and sublime metaphysical world where he explores and exposes the true nature of our self and being.