Walker, Karen Thompson
Entry updated 7 April 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1980- ) US creative writing instructor and author in whose first novel, the Young Adult The Age of Miracles (2012), a teenager awakens in a Near Future suburb to find that her inner turmoils are mirrored at a planetary level, with Earth slowing in orbit and Gravity suffering distortions, all of which puts her coming of age at risk. In Walker's second novel, The Dreamers (2019), a mysterious Pandemic puts adolescent girls into deep sleep, one by one, a state in which they begin to have multiply consequential dreams; meanwhile, the contagion continues to spread and California faces quarantine. The protagonist of The Strange Case of Jane O (2025), whose seeming Amnesia has been triggered by her conversation with a man she knows is long dead, gains from him premonitions, which harden into Predictions of Near Future calamities. [JC]
Karen Thompson Walker
born San Diego, California: 1 May 1980
works
- The Age of Miracles (New York: Random House, 2012) [hb/Lynn Buckley]
- The Dreamers (New York: Random House, 2019) [hb/]
- The Strange Case of Jane O (New York: Random House, 2025) [hb/]
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