Julia is leaving a life any other girl her age does but with incidences that are discouraging and also fun filled. While the government is insistent on maintaining the regular working time, others marked as the rebellious colonies decide to follow the new system created by the unprecedented change in the earth’s rotation. Mysterious illnesses pop up of which no one understands at the same time cults begin to sprint up causing a state of lawlessness. The government tries to maintain order as panic spreads all around with life slowly fading away especially for birds and the fish. As Julia tries to cope with these changes, she is also trying to deal with everyday life challenges.ĭays and nights get longer with life being affected especially for the animals as the earth’s gravity is also affected. Julia and her family wake up on a Saturday to a sudden change on how the earth works with a slowed rotation that has affected gravity and thrown the environment into disarray. The Age of Miracles is a luminous and haunting debut novel set in an utterly altered world. She has authored two novels, the age of miracles and the dreamers. Karen Thompson Walker won the 2011 Siren Land Fellowship and the Bomb Magazine Fiction Prize. She has also worked as a book editor for The Simon and Schuster, where she wrote the age of miracles during her mornings. Before relocating to New York, Karen served as newspaper reporter, San Diego area. She studied English and creative writing at UCLA where she also wrote for the UCLA daily bruin. Written in luminous prose, The Dreamers is a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life if only we are awakened to them.Karen Thompson Walker is a science fiction writer born and raised in California. Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster. A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town.
Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her room and falls asleep.
Karen Thompson Walker's second novel tells the mesmerising story of a town transformed by a mystery illness that locks people in perpetual sleep and triggers extraordinary, life-altering dreams. Magine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for months…
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