![]() ![]() ![]() With “Ohio,” Markley sets his sights squarely on the opioid crisis - with “The Deluge,” it’s damn near everything else, with a heavy emphasis on the ongoing climate crisis. Or at least every time there’s a weather event. A good author takes his or her time to flesh out character arcs and storylines, and there are more than a handful here in Markley’s dystopian vision of the next two decades in America.Īnd it’s going to keep me up at night for the foreseeable future. Like any long read, it takes a while for the narrative to pick up steam. It wasn’t until about two weeks in and having barely made a dent that I actually checked it out.ĩ68 pages. Having neglected to look up how long “The Deluge” is, I forged ahead on my iPad, convinced at some point I’d make significant progress. ![]() Having read Stephen Markley’s “ Ohio,” I was thrilled to download his follow up, “ The Deluge,” ahead of publication (January 10). There’s nothing like a really big book to recommit you to a reading goal. ![]()
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