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Jaded city planner Townsend Meadows looks out across Evermore Valley with the ghost of his dead friend by his side. ""Do you ever wonder,"" Fen asks, ""what this city will look like five hundred years from now?"" Their city is teetering on the brink of collapse, and the mayor's answer is a gleaming new auto mall at the valley's edge. For Townsend, it's the death of everything a city should be. Struggling to regain his passion and forced to choose between compliance and conviction, he must risk his career to fight for a more hopeful and verdant future. From an architect's vision at the dawn of the twentieth century, to a rancher's dynasty scarred by violence and greed, to a city founder's hidden message of hope, this story about the rise, fall, and reawakening of an American city reaches far beyond the present. A timely, sweeping novel of memory, corruption, and resilience, Death and Life in the City of Dreams asks, ""What legacy will we choose to leave for our children?""

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Nicholas Deitch is a writer, architect, and advocate for social justice whose fiction explores the intersection of cities, history, and human resilience. His passion for storytelling began when a colleague recognized the emotional depth of his nonfiction work. Since then, he has honed his craft, publishing short stories in Litro Magazine, Club Plum, and Santa Barbara Literary Journal. His short story ""Grace Eternal"" won Best Fiction at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference (2019). Death and Life in the City of Dreams, his debut novel, is deeply influenced by his experiences in nonprofit leadership and the design of inclusive communities and urban places. Originally from Los Angeles, he now lives in Ventura, California, with his wife and creative partner Diana.

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