Turtle Alveston might seem slow, but boy is she tough. The adolescent heroine of Gabriel Tallent's harrowing novel of abuse will not only break your heart, but leave your mind reeling with her ...

It's hard to describe Gabriel Tallent's debut novel My Absolute Darling without using a ton of "buts" and "ands." It's a breathtaking debut novel, but it's absolutely brutal and one of the most ...

My Absolute Darling is a page-turning thriller that’s been compared to Catch-22 and To Kill a Mockingbird by Stephen King. Its author reveals how a feminist, bushwhacking childhood in California ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Riverhead "My Absolute Darling" by Gabriel Tallent By Lisa Zeidner, Special to The Washington Post Fourteen-year-old Turtle Alveston lives with her father, ...

Critics and booksellers who read advance copies of “My Absolute Darling” rave about it. “Few coming-of-age stories deliver [its] sheer lyrical power,” writes the Library Journal in a starred review.

Just a few pages into My Absolute Darling, Martin Alveston quizzes his 14-year-old daughter, Turtle, on her vocabulary; it's a subject the young girl is having considerable trouble with at her middle ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Landing in the dog days of August, when many parents are having to endure their children's groans while forcing them to smile for back-to-school photos, Gabriel Tallent's debut novel is the kind of ...

Can love coexist with hate? Can family become both paradise and prison? They can and do in Gabriel Tallent’s extraordinarily unsettling and ambitious first novel, “My Absolute Darling.” From its first ...

Author Gabriel Tallent has a theory about literature: "I think good books ask us to be courageous readers." It's an apt suggestion, especially with his debut novel My Absolute Darling. The book ...