[rings] with difficult truths both large and small."-- Kansas City Star "The Age of Miracles lingers, like a faded photo of a happy time. It is stunning." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer "Both utterly realistic and fantastically dystopian...The big miracles, Walker seems to be saying, may doom the world at large, but the little ones keep life worth living." --Minnesota Herald Tribune "[An] elegiac, moving first novel."-- Newsday "Arresting... This book cuts bone-deep." -- Austin Chronicle "Evocative and poetic...I loved this book from the first page."-- Huntington News "Walker's tone can be properly [Harper] Lee-esque; both Julia and Scout grapple with the standard childhood difficulties as their societies crumble around them. But life prevails, and the stunning Miracles subtly conveys that adapting."-- Time Out New York "[A] gripping debut . . . Thompson's Julia is the perfect narrator. . . . While the apocalypse looms large -- has in fact already arrived -- the narrative remains fiercely grounded in the surreal and horrifying day-to-day and the personal decisions that persist even though no one knows what to do. A triumph of vision, language, and terrifying momentum, the story also feels eerily plausible, as if the problems we've been worrying about all along pale in comparison to what might actually bring our end." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "In Walker's stunning debut, a young California girl coming of age in a dystopian near future confronts the inevitability of change on the most personal level as life on earth withers ... She goes