My Abandonment

''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, discipline ...

''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 YanagiharaThirteen-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 wor