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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Months before its release date, My Absolute Darling was already marked as a novel of superlatives: the most anticipated, the most transcendent, the most disturbing debut of the year so far. Could it ...

Author Gabriel Tallent says he set out to tell the story of a young woman's fight for her own soul when the odds are "murderously against her." In "My Absolute Darling," a 14-year-old girl knows ...

MY ABSOLUTE DARLING By Gabriel Tallent 417 pages. Riverhead Books. $27. The inspiration for “Lolita” came to Nabokov from a newspaper article announcing that, for the first time, scientists had coaxed ...

'The old house hunkers on its hill, all peeling white paint, bay windows, and spindled wooden railings overgrown with climbing roses and poison oak.' First line and setting: The first line of "My ...

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 ...