My absolute darling : a novel / Gabriel Tallent.
"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."-- Provided by publisher
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735211179
- ISBN: 0735211175
- ISBN: 9780735211186
- Physical Description: 417 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.
- Copyright: ℗♭2017
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A novel"--Book jacket |
| Target Audience Note: | 920L Lexile |
Search for related items by subject
| Genre: | Bildungsromans. Psychological fiction. Novels. |
Available copies
- 49 of 52 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 2 of 3 copies available at Sandhill Regional Library. (Show)
Holds
- 2 current holds with 52 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Hampton B. Allen Library | FIC TALLENT (Text) | 18198000658064 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Leath Memorial Library | FIC TALLENT (Text) | 58198000713506 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 06/28/2025 |
| Moore County Library | FIC TALLENT (Text) | 48198000684239 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | F TALLENT (Text) | 39493108224686 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Angier Public Library | F Tal (Text) | 33632002260918 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Ashe County Public Library | F TAL (Text) | 50503300425669 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| BHM Headquarters Library | FIC (Text) | 38344101588935 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Beaufort Main | F TALLE (Text) | 34208203571053 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Belhaven Public Library | FIC (Text) | 38344400187272 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Broadway Branch | FIC TALLENT (Text) | 33262003250598 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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