Tuesday
January 15, 2013
7:00 pm
In this
debut novel by gifted storyteller Karen Thompson Walker, the world
is ending not with a bang so much as a long, drawn-out whimper. The Earth's rotation
slows, gradually stretching out days and nights and subtly affecting the
planet's gravity. The looming apocalypse parallels the adolescent struggles of
10-year-old Julia, as her comfortable suburban life succumbs to a sort of domestic
deterioration. Julia confronts her parents' faltering marriage, illness, the
death of a loved one, her first love, and her first heartbreak. Thompson Walker’s
language is precise and poetic, but never overpowers the realism she imbues to
her characters and the slowing Earth they inhabit. Most impressively, she has
written a coming-of-age tale that asks whether it's worth coming of age at all
in a world that might end at any minute. Like the best stories about the end of
the world, The Age
of Miracles is about
the existence of hope and whether it can prevail in the face of uncertainty.
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