Fatima Farheen Mirza, author of A Place For Us “A stunning and comprehensive view of a future that is both impressively imagined and terrifyingly imminent.” Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead
Unquestionably one of the best novels to grapple with the climate crisis. “A major achievement, bountifully imagined. A masterful beast of intellect and heart.?Markley should take his place as a visionary of our time.” As their stories hurtle toward a spectacular climax, each faces a reckoning: what will they sacrifice to salvage humanity’s last chance at a future? A singular achievement, The Deluge is a once-in-a-generation novel that meets the moment as few works of art ever have. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters-a broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist, a neurodivergent mathematician, a cunning eco-terrorist, an actor turned religious zealot, and a brazen young activist named Kate Morris, who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come.įrom the Gulf Coast to Los Angeles, the Midwest to Washington, DC, their intertwined odysseys unfold against a stark backdrop of accelerating chaos as they summon courage, galvanize a nation, fall to their own fear, and find wild hope in the face of staggering odds. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat.
America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity.
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