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PRAISE FOR THE DELUGE: A ferocious, spectacular achievement. A masterful beast of intellect and heart.?Markley should take his place as a visionary of our time. --Merritt Tierce, author of Love Me Back A major achievement, bountifully imagined. Unquestionably one of the best novels to grapple with the climate crisis. I am haunted by it. -- Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead A stunning and comprehensive view of a future that is both impressively imagined and terrifyingly imminent. --Fatima Farheen Mirza, author of A Place For Us Engrossing and timely. A towering achievement in style and substance that is at once timeless and impossibly urgent. --Ben Philippe, author of Charming as a Verb The Deluge is not just an impressively well-thought-out and all-too-realistic catalog of the ways in which the climate crisis might mutate into something much worse; it's also a page-turner packed with no shortage of thrills or heart. --Sean Adams, author of The Heap A masterclass of climate fiction. This barnstormer of a book is a must-read. --Nana Nkweti, author of Walking on Cowrie Shells A seminal novel and a singular achievement. The Deluge is sure to take a place alongside such great environmental books as The Overstory, The Shell Collector, Barkskins, Flight Behavior and so many others. --Bill Cusumano, Square Books, Oxford, Mississippi An epic work of great ambition, Stephen Markley's The Deluge is unyielding; it marvels and it mortifies. Few books in a lifetime will make you feel as this one must and while full of every kind of blooming horror, Markley's magnum opus is as engulfing as it is earnest. --Jeremy Garber, Powells, Portland Oregon A terrifyingly imagined future, made all the more believable by the real characters in the not so distant past and present. An important book. --Bobbi Irving, Penguin Bookshop in Sewickley, Pennsylvania PRAISE FOR OHIO: Jesus, it blew me away. Tough stuff, but I couldn't put it down. You could almost call it THE GRAPES OF WRATH of the opioid crisis. --STEPHEN KING, ON TWITTER Extraordinary . . . The most moving parts of the book are those that step back and let the events and the actions speak for themselves . . . The real core of this earnestly ambitious debut lies not in its sweeping statements but in its smaller moments, in its respectful and bighearted renderings of damaged and thwarted lives. It's the human scale that most descriptively reveals the truth about the world we're living in. --DAN CHAON, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW [Ohio is] a descendent of the Dickensian 'social novel' by way of Jonathan Franzen: epic fiction that lays bare contemporary culture clashes, showing us who we are and how we got here...Markley's prose [is] as lively as a bonfire, crackling with incisive details...Markley's gift is keeping one eye on these intimate specifics and the other on the expansive landscape of modern American life. --O MAGAZINE Ohio isn't just a remarkable debut novel, it's a wild, angry and devastating masterpiece of a book. Markley's debut is a sprawling, beautiful novel that explores the aftermath of the Great Recession and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a powerful look at the tenuous bonds that hold people together at their best and at their worst. [Ohio] is intricately constructed, with gorgeous, fiery writing that pulls the reader in and never lets go. --NPR Genuinely absorbing...Ohio burns with alienation, nihilism, frustration and finally love for a place that gave birth to all of them. --WASHINGTON POST A book of genuine substance and style...Markley's skill is apparent...Both a lament and a love letter, Ohio is a reminder of the wealth of stories hidden in small towns, and of how much 'history and pathos could accumulate in errant pockets on any given night.' --WALL STREET JOURNAL Markley's ambitious foray into fiction reunites four high school classmates on a fateful summer night in their Ohio hometown, in what reads like a darker-themed epilog to Friday Night Lights...Markley's prose sparkles with insight and supports an intricate narrative architecture that recalls Nathan Hill's The Nix and Patrick Somerville's This Bright River...highly recommended for all literary collections. --LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW) Reporters have fanned out in search of answers to Middle America's decline and Trumpist desperation, but Markley is one of the first novelists to fully reflect the social forces at work without sacrificing an iota of character work or narrative tension. --VULTURE (NYMAG.COM) A thoughtful examination of the neglected corners of a traumatized country -- and one that will pierce your loyal, loving heart. --ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY [A] standout debut...Markley's novel is alternately disturbing and gorgeous, providing a broad view of the anxieties of a post-9/11 Middle America and the complexities of the humans who navigate them. --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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Stephen Markley is the acclaimed author of Ohio, which NPR called a “masterpiece.” A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Markley’s other books include the memoir Publish This Book and the travelogue Tales of Iceland.

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