NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
"People ? O: The Oprah Magazine ? Financial Times ? Kansas City Star ? BookPage ? Kirkus Reviews ? Publishers Weekly ? Booklist"
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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 and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world.
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"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER
""""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 Miracles" is 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.
Praise for "The Age of Miracles"
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"A stunner."--Justin Cronin
"A genuinely moving tale that mixes the real and surreal, the ordinary and the extraordinary, with impressive fluency and flair."--Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"
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"Gripping drama . . . flawlessly written; it could be the most assured debut by an American writer since Jennifer Egan's "Emerald City."""--The Denver Post"
"If you begin this book, you'll be loath to set it down until you've reached its end.""--San Francisco Chronicle"
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"Provides solace with its wisdom, compassion, and elegance."--Curtis Sittenfeld
Don't miss the exclusive conversation between Karen Thompson Walker and Karen Russell at the back of the book.
Industry Reviews
Praise for "The Age of Miracles" "[A] moving tale that mixes the real and surreal, the ordinary and the extraordinary with impressive fluency and flair ... Ms. Walker has an instinctive feel for narrative architecture, creating a story, in lapidary prose, that moves ahead with a sense of both the inevitable and the unexpected ... Ms. Walker maps [her characters'] inner lives with such sure-footedness that they become as recognizable to us as people we've grown up with or watched for years on television... [A] precocious debut...one of this summer's hot literary reads."--Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times""THE NEXT BIG FEMALE NOVELIST." --Rolling Stone "THE SUMMER BOOK." --Vanity Fair.com "[AN] EARTHSHAKING DEBUT." -Entertainment Weekly "Part speculative fiction, part coming-of-age story..."The Age of Miracles" could turn Walker into American literature's next big thing."--NPR "A tender coming-of-age novel."--Maureen Dowd, "The New York Times"" ""Walker creates lovely, low-key scenes to dramatize her premise...The spirit of Ray Bradbury hovers in the mixture of the portentous and quotidian."--"The New Yorker" "[Walker] matches the fierce creativity of her imagination with a lyrical and portentous understanding of the present."--"People "(4 stars) "This haunting and soul-stirring novel about the apocalypse is transformative and unforgettable."--"Marie Claire" "Quietly explosive ... Walker describes global shifts with a sense of utter realism, but she treats Julia's personal adolescent upheaval with equal care, delicacy, and poignancy.""--O, The Oprah Magazine ""Haunting."--"Real Simple""If you begin this book, you'll be loath to set it down until you've reached its end... The Age of Miracles reminds us that we never know when everything will change, when a single event will split our understanding of personal history and all history into a Before and an After." "-The San F
