The Age of Miracles: the most thought-provoking end-of-the-world coming-of-age book club novel you'll read this year

The Age of Miracles: the most thought-provoking end-of-the-world coming-of-age book club novel you'll read this year

by KarenThompsonWalker (Author), Karen Thompson Walker (Author)

Synopsis

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

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Edition: Reissue
Publisher: Scribner UK
Published: 13 Jun 2019

ISBN 10: 1471177998
ISBN 13: 9781471177996

Author Bio
Karen Thompson Walker is a graduate of UCLA and the Columbia MFA program. A former book editor, she wrote The Age of Miracles in the mornings before work. Born and raised in San Diego, California, she now lives in Brooklyn with her husband.