The Age of Miracles

Karen Thompson Walker 2012

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
dystopian literary fiction loss survival

Our Take

The Earth's rotation slows and days stretch into darkness. Walker tells it through the eyes of an eleven-year-old girl, and the apocalypse becomes inseparable from adolescence — both are the end of a world you cannot get back. The gravity of the premise is matched by the gravity of growing up.

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