From the bestselling author of Ohio， a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity。

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。 America is in upheaval， battered by violent weather and extreme politics。 In California in 2013， Tony Pietrus， a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane， receives a death threat。 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。

From 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。 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。