On with our next selection called
The Age of Miracles by
Karen Thompson Walker, a debut novel by an author who is new to the Chicken Lit Bookclub. Alrighty then, so let's take a look at a few reviews to get an idea about what we are getting into:
“Karen Thompson Walker’s harrowing and graceful first novel, The Age of
Miracles, would be fascinating to read at any time. But in the summer of
2012, when the country is being wracked by record-high temperatures,
freak storms, devastating droughts, wildfires and floods, it is almost
disturbingly well timed… The Age of Miracles is as thrilling as any
fantastic mystery, and in its echoes of reality magnified, impossible to
forget. ”
– Buffalo News
"Written in a voice that’s as familiar as your own junior-high diaries,
Walker’s debut is a classic coming-of-age story, one that’s made all the
more heartbreaking by the realization that Julia may never get the
chance to come of age. It perfectly captures what it’s like to be a
teenager: always feeling like the world is going to end, waiting for the
day when life goes back to normal, until you grow up and discover that
it never really does.”
– Entertainment Weekly
How exactly can we NOT read this one?
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