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My Absolute Darling

by Gabriel Tallent
$17.90 Now $10.90 Save 39%
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Gritty survival tale; emotional and environmental wilderness.

"My Absolute Darling" is a deeply immersive story about resilience and the raw intensity of a young girl's struggle for autonomy. As you follow Turtle's harrowing journey, you'll be gripped by her gritty survival instincts, and her intimate connection with nature's beauty and brutality. This book offers a profound exploration of personal strength, and if you appreciate narratives that challenge the spirit while celebrating the triumph of the human will, this one will stay with you long after the last page.

  • Barry Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2018)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (2017)
  • Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2018)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction & for Debut Goodreads Author (2017)
  • Beste Boek voor Jongeren Nominee for Vertaald (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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My Absolute Darling

by Gabriel Tallent
$17.90 Now $10.90 Save 39%
ISBN: 9780525533238
Authors: Gabriel Tallent
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Date of Publication: 2017-08-31
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Young Adult, Literary Fiction, Mystery/Crime/Thriller
Related Topics: Race, Thriller, Mental Health, Asian Literature, Coming of Age, Young Adult Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Realistic Fiction, Feminism
Goodreads rating: 3.61
(rated by 49652 readers)

Description

A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul. Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father. Then Turtle meets Jacob, a high-school boy who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush, Turtle starts to imagine escape, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. The reader tracks Turtle's escalating acts of physical and emotional courage, and watches, heart in throat, as she struggles to become her own hero--and in the process, becomes ours as well. Shot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting, My Absolute Darling is an urgently told, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer.
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Gritty survival tale; emotional and environmental wilderness.

"My Absolute Darling" is a deeply immersive story about resilience and the raw intensity of a young girl's struggle for autonomy. As you follow Turtle's harrowing journey, you'll be gripped by her gritty survival instincts, and her intimate connection with nature's beauty and brutality. This book offers a profound exploration of personal strength, and if you appreciate narratives that challenge the spirit while celebrating the triumph of the human will, this one will stay with you long after the last page.

  • Barry Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2018)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (2017)
  • Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2018)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction & for Debut Goodreads Author (2017)
  • Beste Boek voor Jongeren Nominee for Vertaald (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.