About The Age of Miracles
“It’s never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass—it’s the ones you don’t expect at all,” says Julia, in this spellbinding novel of catastrophe and survival by a superb new writer. Luminous, suspenseful, unforgettable, The Age of Miracles tells the haunting and beautiful story of Julia and her family as they struggle to live in a time of extraordinary change.
On an ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia awakens 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 that seems filled with danger and loss, Julia also must face surprising developments in herself, and in her personal world: divisions widening between her parents; strange behavior by her friends; the pain and vulnerability of first love; a growing sense of isolation; and a surprising, rebellious new strength. With crystalline prose and the indelible magic of a born storyteller, Karen Thompson Walker paints a breathtaking portrait of people finding ways to go on in an ever-evolving world.
Detail
Complete Title: The Age of Miracles
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 294
Publication Time: June 26, 2012
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812983602
ISBN13: 9780812983609
About Karen Thompson Walker
Karen Thompson Walker
Reviews The Age of Miracles
I loved this book. I read it in one 24 hour period. Great example of soft sci-fi/fabulist fiction. It’s like a cross between Alice Sebold’s book The Lovely Bones and Lars Van Trier’s film Melancholia…
Dwight Okita
2.5This is yet another rating I really struggled with because, though I can’t say I really enjoyed it, the novel is beautifully written in a very evocative way that makes you want to write down a…
Emily May
Growing from pre to teen is tough enough, but when the entire planet slows down, it makes the transition a whole lot tougher. Julia is a charming every-girl living an average life in southern Californ…
Will Byrnes
Starts off well but quickly fizzles into a pretty benign coming of age story. Also, while I’m not necessarily a stickler for hard science in my sci fi, it seemed like the author was too lazy to resear…
Jared
First great five star read this year! I have seen this book gets mixed reviews, but I just loved it. I really like the style of this writer. She writes about catastrophies happening in the world (re…
Annet
Really enjoyed this book. The characters were believable and yes the slowing of the earth was believable too. One can only imagine the horrors of this happening for real, but the thing is, you CAN see…
Maureen
Really disappointed and glad I read her sophomore novel first! While I was intrigued with the premise and kept reading to see where it was going….. it never really went anywhere. A very melancholy s…
Holly B (Semi-Hiatus)
I loved The Dreamers so decided to read the author’s backlist book. While the apocalyptic theme is similar, the execution is very different. The earth’s rotation has slowed, and the lengthening da…
JanB(vacation and off-line till mid-October)
Most books I read a book serve as a form of escapism, a little welcome holiday from life. But some books get inside your head, altering how you see your own life, even as you are reading them. Changin…