"The Age of Miracles is pure magnificence . . . deeply moving and beautifully executed."-Nathan Englander, author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank   "Beautiful . . . Karen Thompson Walker takes a fantastic premise and makes it feel thrillingly real."-Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!   "A remarkable and beautifully wrought novel."-Curtis Sittenfeld, author of American Wife   Luminous and haunting, The Age of Miracles is an unforgettable story about coming of age during extraordinary times, about people going on with their lives in an era of profound uncertainty.   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-the fissures in her family, the loss of friends, the hopeful anguish of 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.   "This is what imagination is. Karen Thompson Walker has managed to combine fiction of the dystopian future with an incisive and powerful portrait of our personal present."-Amy Bloom, author of Away   "A gem of a novel . . . one of the most original coming-of-age stories I have ever read."-Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion