The Age of AAAAHHHHH!

[motorharp]

Have you read "The Age of Miracles" by Karen Thompson Walker?  It's pretty good.  It's a coming-of-age (I hate that phrase, but what other will do?) story of an 11-year-old girl dealing with a first crush, mean girls, parents, and a possibly demented grandfather.  It teeters on the edge of being a YA novel, but what tips it slightly into the adult literature realm is the backdrop with Earth's rotation inexorably slowing and the world possibly coming to an end.  Walker does such a good job of incorporating the normal-ness of changing life in the teen years into the desolation of the changing external world, that I had to remind myself as I was going about my days the world wasn't actually slowing down.  And I was actually feeling a little tense about it until I finished it.

Aaaand then I go to catch up on podcasts from over the holidays only to find Radiolab talking about... THE EARTH'S ROTATION SLOWING! Aaaahhh!