Writer Karen Thompson Walker uses her hometown of San Diego as the backdrop for her first novel, "The Age of Miracles." As book critic Oscar Villalon explains, it's a coming-of-age tale set amid a global catastrophe, witnessed among the tract homes and terrain of Southern California.
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