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Created with Fabric.js 1.4.5 Aggeliki Politis Period 3 “Later, I would come to think of those first days as the time when we learned as a species that we had worried over the wrong things: the hole in the ozone layer, the melting of the ice caps, West Nile and swine flu and killer bees. But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.” The Age of Miracles Author: Karen Thompson WalkerGenre: Speculative Fiction, Literary Fiction “I should have known by then that it's never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass; it's the ones you don't expect at all.” Personal Response:This novel is mainly focused on Julia, an eleven year old girl who lives in California. There was a disaster that no one could explain happening, which is the slowing. The Earth's rotation slowed, and the 24-hour clock became irrelevant.Days and nights grew longer and in this process gravity was affected as well.Julia and her family went through many troubling situations. Love, betrayal and isolation were shown in this story. I personally really loved this novel. I think it was extremely enjoyable to read. I couldn't stop reading it. It was also well written and the story plot was amazing.. double click to change this header text! “Maybe loneliness was imprinted in my genes, lying dormant for years but now coming into full bloom.”
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