Karen Thompson Walker's debut novel is a stunner from the first page--an end-of- the-world, coming-of-age tale of quiet majesty.
It is never what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different - unimagined, unprepared for, unknown...' What if our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours, until day becomes night and night becomes day? What effect would this slowing have on the world? On the birds in the sky, the whales in the sea, the ast. ..
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