My Absolute Darling A Novel
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent is a reprint edition published by Penguin on June 26, 2018, featuring 432 pages in English. This novel follows the journey of Turtle Alveston, a fourteen-year-old girl navigating the complexities of her isolated life along the northern California coast. After the death of her mother, Turtle is trapped in a tumultuous relationship with her father, Martin, which shapes her existence and limits her interactions with the outside world.
Readers will find a compelling narrative that explores themes of survival, bravery, and the quest for personal freedom. As Turtle encounters Jacob, a high-school boy who introduces her to a different way of life, she begins to recognize the dangers of her current situation and contemplates escape. The story unfolds with vivid descriptions of the natural landscape, emphasizing Turtle’s internal struggles and her courageous attempts to forge her own identity. This edition presents a profound exploration of coming-of-age against a backdrop of action and adventure.
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“Impossible to put down.” —NPR
“A novel that readers will gulp down, gasping.” —The Washington Post
“The word ‘masterpiece’ has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but My Absolute Darling absolutely is one.” —Stephen King
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. What follows is a harrowing story of bravery and redemption. With Turtle’s escalating acts of physical and emotional courage, the reader watches, heart in throat, as this teenage girl 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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