With Tales of Iceland, Markley delivers the fastest, funniest memoir and travelogue of an American experience in Icelandīeware: You will NOT learn how to say 'Which way to the potato farm' in the Icelandic language. The three young men found a country straddling Europe and North America, recovering from its 2008 economic crisis, struggling to regain its national identity, influenced by the entire globe yet trafficking in its singular Icelandic sagas and legends. Seven years later, Markley set out with two friends for Iceland, and adventure would ensue. “Supermodels working at McDonald’s,” said Tarantino of the Icelandic. 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.WHEN AMERICAN AUTHOR STEPHEN MARKLEY WAS A FRESH-FACED, IMPRESSIONABLE UNIVERSITY STUDENT IN OHIO, HE SAW QUENTIN TARANTINO DESCRIBE A TRIP HE’D TAKEN TO ICELAND. 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. Please note: masks are required at Literati Bookstore events.Ībout the book:From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity. He'll be joined in conversation by Michigan Radio's April Baer. We're please to welcome Stephen Markley in support of his new novel The Deluge.

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