INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FINALIST ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES\'S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017 ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST\'S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017 ONE OF NPR\'S \'GREAT READS\' OF 2017 A USA TODAY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AN AMAZON.
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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..
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.
What follows is a harrowing story of bravery and redemption.
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.
And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable.
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.
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.
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.
The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles.
At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast.
Turtle Alveston is a survivor. --Stephen King A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl\'s heart-stopping fight for her own soul. -- The Washington Post The word \'masterpiece\' has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but My Absolute Darling absolutely is one. -- NPR A novel that readers will gulp down, gasping.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FINALIST ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES\'S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017 ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST\'S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017 ONE OF NPR\'S \'GREAT READS\' OF 2017 A USA TODAY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AN AMAZON.
COM BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A BUSINESS INSIDER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Impossible to put down
