First-time Utah novelist earns publishing-world acclaim with 'My Absolute Darling'

Among the early raves for Gabriel Tallent’s debut novel, there’s this bit of gushy praise from Stephen King. “The word ‘masterpiece’ has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but ‘My Absolute Darling’ absolutely is one.”In “Darling,” released Tuesday, Tallent has created an original female voice in the character of 14-year-old Turtle Alveston, who lives with her charismatic, autodidact, redneck father, Martin, in the backwoods of coastal N