Spending time with a misogynist who fucks up his wild-child daughter (literally and figuratively) isn't something I would recommend, although there's no denying the author's considerable narrative gift. Tallent immerses the reader in a thicket of Northern California flora and fauna while vividly depicting an adolescent girl's sexual trauma and acquisition of survival skills, both at the hands of her monstrous father. You will learn more about cleaning guns than you ever want to know, and you will put down the book asking if evil is an intrinsic part of human nature. Not for the faint of heart.
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