My Absolute Darling

by

417 pages

English language

Published Feb. 16, 2017

ISBN:
9780735211179
OCLC Number:
967077614

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4 stars (2 reviews)

At 14, Turtle Alveston knows the use of every gun on her wall. She knows how to snare a rabbit, sharpen a blade and splint a bone. She knows that her daddy loves her more than anything else in this world and he’ll do whatever it takes to keep her with him.

But she doesn’t know why she feels so different from the other girls at school; why the line between love and pain can be so hard to see. Or why making a friend may be the bravest and most terrifying thing she has ever done.

Sometimes the people you’re supposed to trust are the ones who do most harm. And what you’ve been taught to fear is the very thing that will save you…

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reviewed My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent

Review of 'My absolute darling' on 'GoodReads'

4 stars

In my mind a truly American book: violence, rape, guns and nature.
That said this book is what writing should be like. It's like walking on wobbly ground, you're never sure of your footing because you're plunged in a world unknown to you where every step is advancing towards unforseable consequences.

Although the plot of this novel is located a few hundred miles from where I live it draws me in a completely different world both geographically and mentally leaving me fragile and feeling somehow inadequate.

That's what every real novel should achieve.

reviewed My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent

Review of 'My absolute darling' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

In my mind a truly American book: violence, rape, guns and nature.
That said this book is what writing should be like. It's like walking on wobbly ground, you're never sure of your footing because you're plunged in a world unknown to you where every step is advancing towards unforseable consequences.

Although the plot of this novel is located a few hundred miles from where I live it draws me in a completely different world both geographically and mentally leaving me fragile and feeling somehow inadequate.

That's what every real novel should achieve.

Subjects

  • Widowers
  • Families
  • Teenage girls
  • Middle schools
  • Fiction
  • Interpersonal relations
  • Friendship
  • Identity (Philosophical concept)

Places

  • California