This was what I loved about The Age of Miracles, her first novel about a shift in the earth’s rotation, which focused on a single family and teenage girl. The global implications are there, but are not the focus. What I love about Karen Thompson Walker’s speculative fiction is the way she takes big events and brings them close, focusing on the individuals who are affected. Who would succumb next? What happened to the people who fell ill? What could the town do–and what would the world do if the illness spread? A Big Story Told in a Small Way The book positively radiated with fear, questions, and the unknown. Some people woke up, and others just didn’t. The illness plaguing the town didn’t take it by storm it moved in quietly, and during an act that no one could avoid. Karen Thompson Walker’s writing is mesmerizing, and given the sleepy, dreamy theme of this book, her tone was exactly right. Dystopian story about a mysterious sleeping sickness that overtakes a town.Second novel from Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles, which I loved.The human brain is subject to all kinds of misperceptions, and the waking mind not always more attuned to reality than the dreaming one.
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