Booksellers have chosen Gabriel Tallent’s harrowing debut novel, My Absolute Darling (Riverhead Books), as the number-one September Indie Next List pick…This is a Great American Novel. Exquisitely lush language of the natural world; startlingly vivid characters; a global understanding of social context, in a particular place; and, in this case, steel-wire narrative tension stringing through the beautiful prose like piano wire. It is the book this year that I feel every American should read, because of its greatness and also because of its deep wrestling with issues of class, complacency, climate change, culture, and especially gender.
–Bookweb.org (interview with author)
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.
-Goodreads
Note that this book includes sexual and physical abuse themes that may not be suitable for younger minds.
Goodreads Reviews
3.6 rating based on 57,243 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0735211175
ISBN-13: 9780735211179
Goodreads: 33572350
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À quatorze ans, Turtle Alveston arpente les bois de la côte nord de la Californie avec un fusil et un couteau pour seuls compagnons. Mais si le monde extérieur s'ouvre à elle dans toute son immensité, son univers familial est étroit et menaçant : Turtle a grandi seule, sous l'emprise d'un père charismatique et abusif. Jusqu'au jour où elle rencontre Jacob, un lycéen blagueur qu'elle intrigue et fascine à la fois. Poussée par cette amitié naissante, Turtle décide alors d'échapper à son père et plonge dans une aventure sans retour où elle mettra en jeu sa liberté et sa survie.…
