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My Absolute Darling is the 2017 debut novel by American author Gabriel Tallent, published in the US by Riverhead Books My Absolute Darling (2017), a novel by American author Gabriel Tallent, follows Julia "Turtle" Alveston as she learns to see her father, Martin, for the abusive psychopath he is.Tallent's debut novel, My Absolute Darling was warmly received by critics, although most reviewers noted that Martin's abusive parenting makes the novel "difficult to read" (NPR).

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Julia "Turtle" Alveston, age fourteen, lives in California with her sociopathic father, Martin My Absolute Darling is, very obviously, difficult to read, particularly the scenes that detail Martin's abuse Very dark and disturbing, but one of the most noteworthy novels I have read this year! Despite some very stellar reviews, I waffled back and forth, unable to decide if really wanted to tackle this one, but thanks to my GR friend, Jennifer Masterson's review, I took.

'My Absolute Darling' Is Hard To Read, Harder To Put Down NPR. Julia "Turtle" Alveston, age fourteen, lives in California with her sociopathic father, Martin Reviews "There are books we like well enough to recommend, but there are a very few—To Kill a Mockingbird, Catch-22, The Things They Carried—that we remember forever.To my own shortlist I can now add My Absolute Darling, by Gabriel Tallent.Fourteen-year-old Turtle Alveston is a brilliantly rendered creation, and her father is the most terrifyingly believable human monster to inhabit the.

'My Absolute Darling' Is Hard To Read, Harder To Put Down NPR. An Amazon Best Book of September 2017: There's so much to admire in My Absolute Darling: acute emotional insight, precise and evocative writing about the natural world, and pacing worthy of an action movie.How can this possibly be a debut? But some people live up to their names, and Gabriel Tallent, whose first novel this is, writes with bravura more experienced authors can only envy. A debut novel by Gabriel Tallent, My Absolute Darling centers on 14-year-old Turtle Alveston, a tough-as-nails outdoorsy kid who is forever obsessively cleaning her gun in her house in North.