My Absolute Darling A Novel

Gabriel Tallent, Alex McKenna

eAudio - 2017

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND THE JOHN LEONARD PRIZENAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND USA TODAY"Impossible to put down." —NPR"A novel that readers will gulp down, gasping.” —The Washington Post"The word 'masterpiece' has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but My Absolute Darling absolutely is one." —Stephen KingFrom the author of the forthcoming Crux, a brilliant, immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul.Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her ...haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated... more