My absolute darling, Gabriel Tallent
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My absolute darling, Gabriel Tallent
Language
eng
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no index present
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novels
Main title
My absolute darling
Oclc number
967077614
Responsibility statement
Gabriel Tallent
Summary
"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
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- Psychological fiction
- Infatuation -- Fiction
- Widowers -- Fiction
- Bildungsromans
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- Identity (Psychology) in adolescence -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations in adolescence -- Fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
- Motherless families -- Fiction
- California, Northern -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- FICTION / Action & Adventure
- FICTION / Literary
- Middle schools -- Fiction
- Sexually abused children -- Fiction
- Survivalism -- Fiction
- Teenage girls -- Fiction
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- Classification4
- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject17
- Psychological fiction
- Infatuation -- Fiction
- Widowers -- Fiction
- Bildungsromans
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- Identity (Psychology) in adolescence -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations in adolescence -- Fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
- Motherless families -- Fiction
- California, Northern -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- FICTION / Action & Adventure
- FICTION / Literary
- Middle schools -- Fiction
- Sexually abused children -- Fiction
- Survivalism -- Fiction
- Teenage girls -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1
- Other version1
- Mapped to1