![]() A former book editor, she wrote The Age of Miracles in the mornings before work. The real catastrophies are always different - unimagined, unprepared for, unknown. Karen Thompson Walker is a graduate of UCLA and the Columbia MFA program. 'It is never what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. ![]() Julia, facing the loneliness and despair of an awkward adolescence, witnesses the impact of this phenomenon on the world, on the community, on her family and on herself. And yet, even if the world is, in fact, coming to an end, as some assert, day-to-day life must go on. The enormity of this is almost beyond comprehension. One morning, Julia and her parents wake up in their suburban home in California to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth is noticeably slowing. The novel The Age of Miracles, by Karen Thompson Walker tells the story of an adolescent girl struggling with coming of age at the same time that the. ![]() What effect would this slowing have on the world? On the birds in the sky, the whales in the sea, the astronauts in space, and on an eleven-year-old girl, grappling with emotional changes in her own life.? WHAT IF our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours until day becomes night and night becomes day? ![]() I loved this novel ' Justin Cronin, author of The Passage 'A stunner from the first page - an end-of-the-world, coming-of-age tale of quiet majesty. ![]()
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