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My Abandonment
On sale
28th June 2018
Price: £8.99
‘A beautiful, strange novel . . . Fascinating and moving, it tells with great tenderness how human love goes wrong’ Ursula K. Le Guin
‘The recent novel I recommend most . . . a short, disciplined, unsettling book’ Hanya Yanagihara
Thirteen-year-old Caroline and her father live in Forest Park, an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. Day to day, they live in an elaborate cave shelter, wash in a nearby creek, store perishables at the water’s edge, tend a garden and even keep a library of sorts. Once a week they go to the city to buy groceries and otherwise merge with the civilised world. But one small mistake allows a jogger to discover them, which derails their entire existence.
Inspired by a true story and told through the startlingly sincere voice of its young narrator, Caroline, My Abandonment is a gripping journey into life in the wilderness and a mesmerizing tale of survival and hope.
‘The recent novel I recommend most . . . a short, disciplined, unsettling book’ Hanya Yanagihara
Thirteen-year-old Caroline and her father live in Forest Park, an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. Day to day, they live in an elaborate cave shelter, wash in a nearby creek, store perishables at the water’s edge, tend a garden and even keep a library of sorts. Once a week they go to the city to buy groceries and otherwise merge with the civilised world. But one small mistake allows a jogger to discover them, which derails their entire existence.
Inspired by a true story and told through the startlingly sincere voice of its young narrator, Caroline, My Abandonment is a gripping journey into life in the wilderness and a mesmerizing tale of survival and hope.
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Reviews
A beautiful, strange novel . . . Fascinating and moving, it tells with great tenderness how human love goes wrong
An electrically charged, bone-deep and tender tale of loss and partial redemption. Surreal, haunting, elegiac
The recent novel I recommend most . . . a short, disciplined, unsettling book
Poignant . . . My Abandonment lingers in the mind, leaving you as haunted as its mesmerizing characters
A book as fierce as it is tender, as tender as it is fierce