About The Age of Miracles
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Random House
“It still amazes me how little we really knew. . . . Maybe everything that happened to me and 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.”
On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, the environment is thrown into disarray. Yet as she struggles to navigate an ever-shifting landscape, Julia is also coping with the normal disasters of everyday life—the fissures in her parents’ marriage, the loss of old friends, the hopeful anguish of first love, the bizarre behavior of her grandfather who, convinced of a government conspiracy, spends his days obsessively cataloging his possessions. As Julia adjusts to the new normal, the slowing inexorably continues.
“[A] gripping debut … Thompson’s Julia is the perfect narrator … While the apocalypse looms large—has in fact already arrived—the narrative remains fiercely grounded in the surreal and horrifying day-to-day and the personal decisions that persist even though no one knows what to do. A triumph of vision, language, and terrifying momentum, the story also feels eerily plausible, as if the problems we’ve been worrying about all along pale in comparison to what might actually bring our end.”—Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW)
“This is what imagination is. In The Age of Miracles, the earth’s rotation slows, gravity alters, days are stretched out to fifty hours of sunlight. In the midst of this, a young girl falls in loves, sees things she shouldn’t and suffers heartbreak of the most ordinary kind. Karen Thompson Walker has managed to combine fiction of the dystopian future with an incisive and powerful portrait of our personal present.” —Amy Bloom, author of Away
“THE AGE OF MIRACLES is pure magnificence. Deeply moving and beatifully executed, Karen Thompson Walker has written the perfect novel for the global-warming age.” —Nathan Englander, author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges.
About Karen Thompson Walker
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University and is an editor of fiction and non-fiction at Simon & Schuster. The Age of Miracles is her first book.
For more information about Karen and The Age of Miracles, please visit the book’s website, www.TheAgeofMiracles.com, and Facebook page.
Karen Thompson Walker’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:
Monday, June 4th: Layers of Thought
Wednesday, June 6th: Rhapsody in Books
Thursday, June 7th: A Chick Who Reads
Monday, June 11th: Reviews by Lola
Tuesday, June 12th: Book Chatter
Wednesday, June 13th: Alison’s Bookmarks
Thursday, June 14th: Jenn’s Bookshelves
Monday, June 18th: Inklings Read
Tuesday, June 19th: Life in the Thumb
Wednesday, June 20th: Under My Apple Tree
Thursday, June 21st: Twisting the Lens
Tuesday, June 26th: Stephanie’s Written Word
Thursday, June 28th: Conceptual Reception
Monday, July 2nd: Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile
Tuesday, July 3rd: It’s a Crazy, Beautiful Life
Thursday, July 5th: The Brain Lair
Monday, July 9th: Great Imaginations
Tuesday, July 10th: Sweet Southern Home
Wednesday, July 11th: The Scarlet Letter
Thursday, July 12th: In the Next Room
Monday, July 16th: Regular Rumination
Tuesday, July 17th: She Treads Softly
Wednesday, July 18th: Book Addict Katie
Thursday, July 19th: Fiction State of Mind
Monday, July 23rd: Unabridged Chick
Tuesday, July 24th: Peeking Between the Pages
Wednesday, July 25th: Ashley Loves Books
Thursday, July 26th: Becky’s Book Reviews
Friday, August 3rd: In the Next Room – author Q&A
Wednesday, August 8th: Book Drunkard