Turtle Alveston might seem slow, but boy is she tough. The adolescent heroine of Gabriel Tallent's harrowing novel of abuse will not only break your heart, but leave your mind reeling with her ...

My Absolute Darling is a page-turning thriller that’s been compared to Catch-22 and To Kill a Mockingbird by Stephen King. Its author reveals how a feminist, bushwhacking childhood in California ...

Critics and booksellers who read advance copies of “My Absolute Darling” rave about it. “Few coming-of-age stories deliver [its] sheer lyrical power,” writes the Library Journal in a starred review.

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Author Gabriel Tallent has a theory about literature: "I think good books ask us to be courageous readers." It's an apt suggestion, especially with his debut novel My Absolute Darling. The book ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Riverhead "My Absolute Darling" by Gabriel Tallent By Lisa Zeidner, Special to The Washington Post Fourteen-year-old Turtle Alveston lives with her father, ...

What should you read this weekend? USA TODAY’s picks for book lovers include My Absolute Darling, the accclaimed debut by Gabriel Tallent, plus Salman Rusdhie's topical new novel. My Absolute Darling ...

Can love coexist with hate? Can family become both paradise and prison? They can and do in Gabriel Tallent’s extraordinarily unsettling and ambitious first novel, “My Absolute Darling.” From its first ...

Just a few pages into My Absolute Darling, Martin Alveston quizzes his 14-year-old daughter, Turtle, on her vocabulary; it's a subject the young girl is having considerable trouble with at her middle ...

My Absolute Darling (Riverhead, 417 pp., ***½ out of four stars) is a powerful debut novel for Gabriel Tallent and a gripping introduction to a seriously brave little girl. Turtle Alveston is a ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. My Absolute Darling. By Gabriel Tallent. Julia, nicknamed Turtle, is smart and pretty but she ...