![]() ![]() In itself this is not a remarkable decision. ![]() It’s a scenario that might fuel a Hollywood disaster movie, a fact that might explain the novel’s extraordinary seven figure advance, but Walker holds back from the fireworks, instead electing to tell her story from the vantage point of eleven year-old California teenager Julia, and to focus not upon the existential threat but the way in which the slowing disrupts “certain subtler trajectories: the track of friendships, for example, the paths toward and away from love”. ![]() ![]() Gravity begins to change, affecting people’s balance, confused by the changes in the Earth’s magnetic fields birds begin to lose their way, colliding with windows and walls, the tides begin to grow higher, changes that grow steadily more pronounced as the slowing increases, and days stretch out towards 30 hours and then 36, 48, until days last 24 hours or longer, and nights the same. Like much of the best apocalyptic fiction Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles begins with a frighteningly simple premise: one morning, for reasons that are never fully explained, the world wakes up to discover that the Earth’s rotation has begun to slow.Īt first the effects of the phenomenon seem minor: a few minutes more of night, a few more of day, but these outward changes disguise deeper disturbances. ![]()
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