тАЬFunny, bighearted...Miles specializes in giving fully rounded humanity to characters who might elsewhere be treated as stock figures...pitch-perfect.тАЭ
тАФ New York Times Book Review
"Miles is a writer so virtuosic that readers will feel themselves becoming better, more observant people from reading him."
тАФ Los Angeles Review of Books
A profound new novel about a paralyzed young manтАЩs unexplainable recoveryтАФa stunning exploration of faith, science, mystery, and the meaning of life
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Rendered paraplegic after a traumatic event four years ago, Cameron Harris has been living his new existence alongside his sister, Tanya, in their battered Biloxi, Mississippi neighborhood where only half the houses made it through Katrina. One stiflingly hot August afternoon, as Cameron sits waiting for Tanya during their daily run to the Biz-E-Bee convenience store, he suddenly and inexplicably rises up and out of his wheelchair.
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In the aftermath of this тАЬmiracle,тАЭ Cameron finds himself a celebrity at the center of a contentious debate about whatтАЩs taken place. And when scientists, journalists, and a Vatican investigator start digging, CameronтАЩs deepest secretsтАФthe key to his injury, to his identity, and, in some eyes, to the nature of his recoveryтАФbecome increasingly endangered. Was CameronтАЩs recovery a genuine miracle, or a medical breakthrough? And, finding himself transformed into a symbol, how can he hope to retain his humanity?
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Brilliantly written as closely observed journalistic reportage and filtered through a wide lens that encompasses the vibrant characters affected by CameronтАЩs story, Anatomy of a Miracle will be read, championed, and celebrated as a powerful story of our time, and the work of a true literary master.