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The Age of Miracles
by Karen Thompson Walker
Loved the sci-fi concept of this story and the descriptions of what battling ones circadian rhythm does to a person's psyche and body. Fascinating details about the consequences that follow the slowing are what move this story along and keep you guessing much of the time.
A truly existential novel, this book deals with isolation, changing identities, alienation, and fear of fading into non-existence. The fear of being forgotten after death and the knowledge that the life that your are living will ultimately end as nothing more than an inconsequential blip in the vastness of the universe and time is what this novel ultimately attempts to grapple with.
Favorite Quote:
"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...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." (p. 29)
A truly existential novel, this book deals with isolation, changing identities, alienation, and fear of fading into non-existence. The fear of being forgotten after death and the knowledge that the life that your are living will ultimately end as nothing more than an inconsequential blip in the vastness of the universe and time is what this novel ultimately attempts to grapple with.
Favorite Quote:
"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...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." (p. 29)