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Karen Thompson Walker is the author of The Age of Miracles, which was a New York Times bestseller. She was born and raised in San Diego and is a graduate of UCLA and the Columbia MFA program.  A former editor at Simon & Schuster, she wrote The Age of Miracles in the mornings before work--sometimes while riding the subway. She currently lives in Iowa with her husband. 

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The Age of Miracles
A Novel
Written by Karen Thompson Walker

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $15.00

“It’s never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass—it’s the ones you don’t expect at all,” says Julia, in this spellbinding novel of catastrophe and survival by a superb new writer. Luminous, suspenseful, unforgettable, The Age of Miracles tells the haunting and beautiful story of Julia and her... Read more >

The Age of Miracles
A Novel
Written by Karen Thompson Walker

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $26.00

With a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for the fans of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles is a luminous, haunting, and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered... Read more >

The Age of Miracles
A Novel
Written by Karen Thompson Walker

Format: eBook, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $11.99

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