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WELCOME TO BOOKIN' WITH BINGO'S" ARE YOU LISTENING? DAY"
I AM EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE TODAY'S
AUDIO BOOK CHOICE.....
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MY ABSOLUTE DARLING
Read by Alex McKenna
BY GABRIEL TALLENT
ABOUT THE AUDIO BOOK:
A brilliant and 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 since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. 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.
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. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. 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. What follows is a harrowing story of bravery and redemption. 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.
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.
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 since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. 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.
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. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. 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. What follows is a harrowing story of bravery and redemption. 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.
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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Gabriel Tallent was born in New Mexico and raised on the Mendocino coast
by two mothers. He received his B.A. from Willamette University in
2010, and after graduation spent two seasons leading youth trail crews
in the backcountry of the Pacific Northwest. Tallent lives in Salt Lake
City. Photo: © Alex Adams
PRAISE FOR GABRIEL TALLENT:
“With its unconventional heroine and unflinching portrayal of an abused girl’s fight to save herself, My Absolute Darling seems poised to become the breakout debut of the year.” —The New York Times
“My Absolute Darling is Gabriel Tallent’s first novel, and no less than Stephen King has called it a “masterpiece” to rank with To Kill A Mockingbird and Catch-22.” —NPR
“Our generation’s next beloved literary heroine….this is one of the most important books you’ll pick up this decade.” —Harper’s Bazaar
“My Absolute Darling is a novel that readers will gulp down, gasping…Tallent [is a] prodigiously talented new writer.” —The Washington Post
“A gripping introduction to a seriously brave little girl… My Absolute Darling is an affecting read but also an important one.” —USA Today
“Impressively, this is…a novel of great beauty, filled with lush evocations of the woods.” —Wall Street Journal
“With its unconventional heroine and unflinching portrayal of an abused girl’s fight to save herself, My Absolute Darling seems poised to become the breakout debut of the year.” —The New York Times
“My Absolute Darling is Gabriel Tallent’s first novel, and no less than Stephen King has called it a “masterpiece” to rank with To Kill A Mockingbird and Catch-22.” —NPR
“Our generation’s next beloved literary heroine….this is one of the most important books you’ll pick up this decade.” —Harper’s Bazaar
“My Absolute Darling is a novel that readers will gulp down, gasping…Tallent [is a] prodigiously talented new writer.” —The Washington Post
“A gripping introduction to a seriously brave little girl… My Absolute Darling is an affecting read but also an important one.” —USA Today
“Impressively, this is…a novel of great beauty, filled with lush evocations of the woods.” —Wall Street Journal
1 comments:
In book contests, I had passed over this book without reading about the story because of its cover. But now I want to read or listen to it.
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