Age of Miracles
By Karen Thompson Walker
In Walker’s beautifully-written debut novel, it’s the end of the world as we know it, but instead of a sudden vampire plague or apocalyptic alien invasion, scientists discover that the Earth’s rotation is slowing. Days and nights are getting longer, birds are dying, and whales are beaching themselves by the thousands. Julia, the thoughtful and withdrawn narrator right on the cusp of adolescence, watches as the Earth’s slowing rotation is the catalyst for all the changes around her – classmates move away, her parents’ marriage starts to splinter, neighbors who decide to ignore the 24-hour