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Karen Thompson Walker's The Age of Miracles was selected as our Best Books of the Month Spotlight for June. A few weeks ago, at the annual Book Expo America convention in New York, Amazon senior editor Mari Malcolm spoke with Thompson Walker about the origins of the book, which she wrote in the mornings before working as a book editor at Simon & Schuster. The Age of Miracles has been hailed as "a precocious debut ... one of this summer's hot literary reads" (The New York Times), "quietly explosive" (O, The Oprah Magazine) and "a coming-of-age tale that asks whether it's worth coming of age at all in a world that might end at any minute" (Amazon's Kevin Nguyen).
Karen Thompson Walker reads an excerpt from The Age of Miracles:
