The age of miracles

What if our twenty-four-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours, until day became night and night became day? What effect would this slowing have on the world? On the birds in the sky, the whales in the sea, the astronauts in space, and on a family and a young girl, who is already coping with the normal disasters of everyday life? Julia's account of how lives can be knocked unexpectedly out of kilter begins on one seemingly ordinary Saturday morning in a California suburb - when she and her parents wake to discover that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. No one knows why, no one knows how to deal with it. The enormity of this change is almost beyond comprehension ...