Davis Launches Book Signing Tour

Author Norah Deakin Davis will kick off her new book signing tour in Columbus, NC, on October 2, 2024.

Time’s Up: A Climate Novel, set in 2030, is a cautionary story of devastation, survival, and hope.

A magazine writer flees Florida when the East Coast floods from a one-two-three punch delivered by climate change in a single catastrophic day—a killer hurricane, record-breaking storm surges, and an enormous tsunami caused by a meltdown of Greenland’s glaciers. The writer joins a pastor, a nurse and her mechanic husband, their teenage son, a scientist, and two large, grumpy housecats—all escaping together by bicycle to the mountains of western North Carolina.

In a review, physician David Lennon wrote: “A good novel is one that entertains.  A great novel is one that makes you think.  Excellence in a novel is one that does both, and Time’s Up:  A Climate Novel achieves the distinction of excellence! This is a must-read for everyone.”

In another review, author John Jeter wrote: “Norah Deakin Davis draws characters who bring headline-making threats to life with an emotional, spiritual, personal impact. Her intimate, deeply human story about survival resonates with page-turning power.”

Davis is a novelist, magazine editor, former philosophy professor, and nonfiction author best known for At Home in the Sun (Garden Way Books) and The Father of Waters (Sierra Club Books). The Mississippi book was condensed in Reader’s Digest, and a documentary film was based on it.

Time’s Up: A Climate Novel is Davis’s eighth book. Others include works for the National Geographic Society, The Nature Conservancy, and the National Science and Technology Council under former Vice President Al Gore.

Davis wrote about climate change and its impacts as a contractor for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the 1990s.

“Riveting and scary as hell!”—Jim Phillips, investigative journalist

“The harrowing journey of a group of refugees escaping on bicycles.”

See more reviews on Amazon