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9780857207234

The Age of Miracles

The Age of Miracles

by Karen Thompson Walker

Publisher Simon & Schuster

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About the book

'It is never what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different - unimagined, unprepared for, unknown'

What if our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours, until day becomes night and night becomes day? 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..?

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 enormity of this is almost beyond comprehension. And yet, even if the world is, in fact, coming to an end, as some assert, day-to-day life must go on. 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.

About the Author

Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker was born in San Diego, California. She earned her degrees in English language and creative writing from the University of California, Los Angeles. While in college, Walker wrote for the Daily Bruin. After completing her undergraduate degree, Walker worked as a journalist for a newspaper in San Diego. She completed her master's degree at Columbia University.

After graduating from Columbia, Walker lived with her husband in Brooklyn, New York. She worked as an editor at Simon & Schuster. Today, she lives in Oregon and is an assistant professor at the University of Oregon in the Creative Writing Department.

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