![]() That book, narrated by a sixth-grade girl, was about what would happen if the earth’s rotation slowed and parts of the planet crisped up and bubbled, like the surface of a crème brûlée. It’s a gift she displayed in her best-selling and well-reviewed first novel, “The Age of Miracles” (2012). Walker has a gift for spooling out these kinds of details, as if we are kittens and she is trailing string. ![]() ![]() If and when they awaken, what news will they have to bring? ![]() Mencken said that the ideal way to knock down any infectious disease is to “shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.” The president in this novel isn’t going to order that to happen, is he?ĭoctors determine that these sleepers are dreaming intensely, as if taking part in a communal screening of a Stanley Kubrick movie. ![]()
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