Author: Gabriel Tallent
- Fiction
- Ediciones Destino
- ISBN: 9786070755019
- Release Date: 03-12-2019
Synopsis
Tortuga Alveston es una sobreviviente. A sus catorce años disfruta caminar por los bosques de la costa norte de California y refugiarse en sus arroyos, estanques y senderos; pero a pesar de que ese mundo es inmenso y perfecto, su entorno familiar es peligroso y asfixiante: desde la muerte de su madre vive cautiva en una vieja cabaña con su padre, Martin, un hombre violento con ideas paranoicas sobre el próximo fin del mundo, quien la prepara para sobrevivir a la inminente catástrofe. Contagiada por la paranoia de su padre, desconfía de los extraños y no tiene amigos… Hasta que conoce a Jacob, un joven un poco mayor que le muestra un mundo que desconocía por completo. Pronto se enamora de él y, poco a poco, comienza a cuestionarse su situación familiar y a plantearse por primera vez la idea de huir, pero su padre es capaz de todo… Sin reunir el valor necesario para enfrentarse a sus más profundos miedos, Tortuga no se atreve a actuar… Pero un día un hecho terrible e inesperado la obliga a tomar una decisión de la que, sabe, no habrá marcha atrás. El nacimiento de una heroína que a todos cautivará.
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. What follows is a harrowing story of bravery and redemption. With Turtle's escalating acts of physical and emotional courage, the reader watches, heart in throat, as this teenage girl struggles to become her own hero—and in the process, becomes ours as well.
