{"product_id":"2940169093445","title":"My Absolute Darling: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"The word 'masterpiece' has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but \u003ci\u003eMy Absolute Darling\u003c\/i\u003e absolutely is one.\" —Stephen King\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Our generation's next beloved literary heroine.\"\u003ci\u003e –Harper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of EW's favorite books of the year so far...an unputdownable coming-of-age novel.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTurtle 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen 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. The reader tracks Turtle's escalating acts of physical and emotional courage, and watches, heart in throat, as she struggles to become her own hero--and in the process, becomes ours as well. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting,\u003ci\u003e My Absolute Darling\u003c\/i\u003e is an urgently told, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47097717391600,"sku":"2940169093445","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169093445_p0.jpg?v=1763760675","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169093445","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}