The Age of Miracles

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2012 by Karen Thompson Walker

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Copper Canyon Press for permission to reprint an excerpt from “Another End of the World” from Interglacial: New and Selected Poems and Aphorisms, copyright © 2004 by James Richardson. Used by permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Copper Canyon Press,

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Walker, Karen Thompson.

The age of miracles : a novel / Karen Thompson Walker.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-679-64438-5

1. Families—California—Fiction. 2. Earthquakes—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3623.A4366A73 2012

813’.6—dc23 2011040664

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