With a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for the fans of the speculative
fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles is a luminous, haunting, and
unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an
utterly altered world.
“It still amazes me how little we really knew. . . . Maybe
everything that happened to me and 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.”
On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family
awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the
earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer,
gravity is affected, the environment is thrown into disarray. Yet as she
struggles to navigate an ever-shifting landscape, Julia is also coping with the
normal disasters of everyday life—the fissures in her parents’ marriage, the
loss of old friends, the hopeful anguish of first love, the bizarre behavior of
her grandfather who, convinced of a government conspiracy, spends his days
obsessively cataloging his possessions. As Julia adjusts to the new normal, the
slowing inexorably continues.
A Summer 2012 B&N Recommends selection. |
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