The narrator is a young woman named Julia, who is looking back on her sixth-grade year a decade earlier in the suburbs of Southern California. What, in turn, does the good read ask of us? Surrender. Karen Thompson Walker has suffused her first novel, "The Age of Miracles," with these qualities, and if you begin this book, you'll be loath to set it down until you've reached its end. Often the good read is cinematic, suggesting the inevitable movie. We must be compelled from one page to the next at a pace that feels just right - not too fast, never slow.
What do we ask of a good read? Escape, release, characters to believe in, situations that convince us, especially fantastic ones.
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