by Gabriel Tallent · Riverhead Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9780735211179
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«My Absolute Darling» is the debut novel by Gabriel Tallent, published by Riverhead Books in hardcover (432 pages, in English).
Fourteen-year-old Turtle Alveston grows up isolated on the northern California coast with her father Martin, a charismatic and tormented man who has taught her to survive in the wild. Her friendship with Jacob makes her see that her life with Martin is not safe, and she begins to imagine an escape using those skills.
Gabriel Tallent's debut novel, published in 2017 and shortlisted for the Barry Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Dylan Thomas Prize.
For readers of literary and coming-of-age fiction, and for book clubs seeking a novel about survival and family.
