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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYPeople O The Oprah Magazine Financial Times Kansas City Star BookPage Kirkus Reviews Publishers Weekly BooklistWith 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 Walkers The Age of Miracles is a luminous, haunting, and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt 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. Its 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.
