{"id":4315,"date":"2012-09-24T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=4315"},"modified":"2012-09-24T07:21:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T12:21:00","slug":"patron-recommendation-the-age-of-miracles-karen-thompson-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=4315","title":{"rendered":"Patron Recommendation: The Age of Miracles &#8211; Karen Thompson Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/age-of-miracles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4316 alignleft\" title=\"age.of.miracles\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/age-of-miracles.jpg?w=200\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/age-of-miracles.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/age-of-miracles-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><strong>About the book:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"yui_3_5_1_1_1348488882914_2377\">&#8220;With a voice as distinctive and original as that of <em>The Lovely Bones,<\/em> and for the fans of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker\u2019s <em>The Age of Miracles<\/em> is a luminous, haunting, and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_5_1_1_1348488882914_2378\">\u201cIt 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. It\u2019s possible, I guess. But I doubt it. I doubt it very much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_5_1_1_1348488882914_2379\">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. The days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, the environment is thrown into disarray. Yet as she struggles to navigate an ever-shifting landscape, Julia is also coping with the normal disasters of everyday life\u2014the fissures in her parents\u2019 marriage, the loss of old friends, the hopeful anguish of first love, the bizarre behavior of her grandfather who, convinced of a government conspiracy, spends his days obsessively cataloging his possessions. As Julia adjusts to the new normal, the slowing inexorably continues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The patron said this novel was wonderful, easily the best book of the 20 or 30 he&#8217;s read so far this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3171645?locg=1\"><strong>Check the catalog for availability<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the book: &#8220;With 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 Walker\u2019s 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.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patron-recommendations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-17B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}