My absolute darling
Subtitle: a novel
By: Gabriel Tallent
Contributors: McKenna, Alex, 1984- narrator
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] :
Number of pages: 16
ISBN-13: 9780525497905
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Death; Teenage girls; Middle schools; Mothers; Fiction; Fathers and daughters; Interpersonal relations; Life change events; Friendship; Identity (Philosophical concept); Sexually abused children; Widowers; Families; Survivalism; Motherless families; Audiobooks; Interpersonal relations in adolescence
Description: 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, 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.
Notes: Title from container.

Compact discs.

Read by Alex McKenna.