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By Jon Steele
There's a bench in Cully, Switzerland. It's in a little park tucked up against the shore of Lake Geneva. I go there a lot to just sit and think, or...
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Volume 34 (Ships June 27)
The Age of Miracles
by Karen Thompson Walker
(Random House)
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What if one day, the earth's rotation suddenly started slowing down?
What would happen to gravity?
How would governments react?
Would civilization — or human beings — survive?
Karen Thompson Walker's debut novel, The Age of Miracles, imagines answers to these dystopian questions in a beautifully written coming-of-age novel.
Eleven-year-old Julia and her family are living in an unremarkable California suburb when the days and nights begin growing longer and longer.
With grace, intelligence, and startling realism, Walker creates a snapshot of a world changing beyond recognition.
Walker captures each moment, intimate and universal, with magical precision. Riveting, heartbreaking, profoundly moving." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
The Age of Miracles spins its glowing magic through incredibly lucid and honest prose, giving equal care and dignity to the small spheres and the large. It is at once a love letter to the world as we know it and an elegy." —Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
The Age of Miracles is pure magnificence. Deeply moving and beautifully executed, Karen Thompson Walker has written the perfect novel for the global-warming age." —Nathan Englander, author of What We Talk About When We Talk about Anne Frank
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