The Age of Miracles: A Novel [Paperback]

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With a voice as distinctive and original as that ofThe Lovely Bones,and for the fans of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker’sThe Age of Miraclesis a luminous and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world.
 
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“Maybe everything that happened to me and to my family had nothing at all to do with the slowing. It's possible, I guess. But I doubt it. I doubt it very much.”
 
Spellbinding, haunting,The Age of Miraclesis a beautiful novel of catastrophe and survival, growth and change, the story of Julia and her family as they struggle to live in an extraordinary time. On an ordinary Saturday, Julia awakes to discover that something has happened to the rotation of the earth. The days and nights are growing longer and longer, gravity is affected, the birds, the tides, human behavior and cosmic rhythms are thrown into disarray. In a world of danger and loss, Julia faces surprising developments in herself, and her personal world—divisions widening between her parents, strange behavior by Hannah and other friends, the vulnerability of first love, a sense of isolation, and a rebellious new strength. With crystalline prose and the indelible magic of a born storyteller, Karen Thompson Walker gives us a breathtaking story of people finding ways to go on, in an ever-evolving world.
 
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“A stunner.”—Justin Cronin
 
“A genuinely moving tale that mixes the lCĪ