Tag: Gabriel Tallent

Gabriel Tallent’s “My Absolute Darling” Wins 15 Bytes Book Award for Fiction

By 15 Bytes on September 9, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Gabriel Tallent’s debut novel My Absolute Darling may be difficult to read, but the judges of the 15 Bytes Book Awards for Fiction say we should. The story of 14-year-old Turtle Alveston’s abuse at the hands of her father can be harrowing, but redemption and grace are found in […]

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Target Shooting Inside the House: Gabriel Tallent’s “My Absolute Darling”

By Aaron Cance on August 29, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

It’s an easy thing, in the bookselling industry, to give oneself over to hyperbole. This is not just because it is a business of sorts, and we want to sell books, but also, largely, because really good booksellers are always reading (always!), and after about five or 10 years […]