06/22/2026
We are please to announce that local author Nicholas Deitch will be signing his first book, here at Abednego Book Shoppe.
This is happening August 22nd, 1pm-3pm.
We already have a supply of books for anybody wanting to buy an early copy (then bring back to have signed!)
Nicholas Deitch is a writer, architect, and advocate for social justice whose fiction explores the intersection of cities, history, and human resilience. He has honed his craft, publishing short-stories in Litro Magazine, Club Plum, and Santa Barbara Literary Journal. His short story Grace Eternal won Best Fiction at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference (2019).
Death and Life in the City of Dreams, his debut novel, is deeply influenced by his experience in non-profit leadership and the design of inclusive communities and urban places. Originally from Los Angeles, Nicholas now lives in Ventura, California, with his wife and creative partner Diana.
About the Book
The city of Evermore is teetering on the brink of collapse, and the mayor's answer is a gleaming new auto mall at the valley's edge. For jaded city planner Townsend Meadows, it's the death of everything a city should be. Struggling to regain his passion and forced to choose between compliance and conviction, he must risk his career to fight for a more hopeful and verdant future.
From an architect's vision at the dawn of the twentieth century, to a rancher's dynasty scarred by violence and greed, to a city founder's hidden message of hope, this story about the rise, fall, and reawakening of an American city reaches far beyond the present. A timely, sweeping novel of memory, corruption, and reslience, Death and Life in the City of Dreams asks, “What legacy will we choose to leave for our children?”
