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Original Title:	The Age of Miracles
ISBN:	0812983602 (ISBN13: 9780812983609)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.theageofmiraclesbook.com/
Characters:	Julia, Hanna, Seth Moreno, Michaela
Setting:	San Diego, California(United States)
Literary Awards:	Audie Award for Science Fiction (2013), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2012)

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“It’s never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass—it’s the ones you don’t expect at all,” says Julia, in this spellbinding novel of catastrophe and survival by a superb new writer. Luminous, suspenseful, unforgettable, The Age of Miracles tells the haunting and beautiful story of Julia and her family as they struggle to live in a time of extraordinary change.   On an ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia awakens 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 that seems filled with danger and loss, Julia also must face surprising developments in herself, and in her personal world: divisions widening between her parents; strange behavior by her friends; the pain and vulnerability of first love; a growing sense of isolation; and a surprising, rebellious new strength. With crystalline prose and the indelible magic of a born storyteller, Karen Thompson Walker paints a breathtaking portrait of people finding ways to go on in an ever-evolving world.

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Title	:	The Age of Miracles
Author	:	Karen Thompson Walker
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 294 pages
Published	:	June 26th 2012 by Random House (first published June 21st 2012)
Categories	:	Fiction. Young Adult. Science Fiction. Dystopia

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Really disappointed and glad I read her sophomore novel first! While I was intrigued with the premise and kept reading to see where it was going..... it never really went anywhere. A very melancholy story that failed to ever capture my full attention. Just waiting, waiting, waiting, and for what? Not much of an ending IMO.Something has happened to make the Earth slow.... Just like the pace of this book and it never picked up. In the end, this was a huge miss.

I loved this book. I read it in one 24 hour period. Great example of soft sci-fi/fabulist fiction. It's like a cross between Alice Sebold's book The Lovely Bones and Lars Van Trier's film Melancholia. In some ways, I also thought about Diary of Anne Frank. A young girl faces a possible apocalypse in MIRACLES. It's YA dystopia but more charming and whimsical than, say, The Hunger Games. Ultimately it is a book that celebrates life with one hand, as it erases life with the other.The language of



This is the story of how we begin to remember. Well, no, not really. But that particular Paul Simon lyric has been swirling in my head this morning and I was just itching to use it. This is actually the story of the day the earth stood still, uhh, slowed down. And the days after that, and the days after that. Nobody knows why the earth's rotation has slowed, but Julia is eleven the day this discovery is announced on the news, with varying degrees of panic.At first the effect is subtle, resulting

This is a good easy read which will leave a lasting impression on what is the most important elements of human life. Where does one begin to summon up the courage to continue to go forward even though doom seems to be at your doorstep? This novel forces one to think of the inevitability of our need to survive even if all around is dying and life seems to be at an end. What if our world stopped turning and our existence was questioned? Would we be brave enough to continue forward in a unknown

This story haunts me. It is also very captivating to watch it unfold. I don't always go for YA, but this one was worth a re-read. It made me thankful to see the sun rise and set every night when it's supposed to. The book is told through the eyes of a 11-year-old Californian girl, Julia, as the earth's rotation starts to slow and the days and the nights get longer. I thought that the imagination and predictions about what might happen if the earth's rotation slowed was believable and this made

Moves from 1.5 to 2.5 stars.Here's the thing. This book is not badly written, or bad. it's actually entertaining, in a haphazard sort of way. The style is well-crafted, there's a story, and so on. I would recommend the book for a brainless evening on the couch, or for a train ride, or just for someone who needs some light reading, any time. On the other hand, now that I've finished detailing the okay things that prevented a 1-star review, I shall move directly on.For one, the well-crafted