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 · Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens review – in the swamps of North Carolina This lush debut about an isolated girl who finds education and solace in nature is already a US bestsellerEstimated Reading Time: 5 mins. Where the Crawdads Sing Summary. Next. Prologue. One day in , six-year-old Kya Clark ’s mother walks down the lane leading from their rundown shack in the North Carolina marshlands. Kya senses that Ma won’t return, but her brother, Jodie, assures Kya that she will, claiming that mothers only abandon their children in order to survive—a reason he doesn’t think pertains to Ma. Delia Owens is a New York Times bestselling nature writer and author of the stunning debut novel, Where the Crawdads Sing. Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver and Karen Russell, Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder.


Delia Owens is the co-author of three internationally bestselling nonfiction books about her life as a wildlife scientist in Africa — Cry of the Kalahari, The Eye of the Elephant, and Secrets of the Savanna. Where the Crawdads Sing is her first novel. Overview. Where the Crawdads Sing is the debut novel of Delia bltadwin.ruhed in by Putnam, her novel is a New York Times bestseller and a selection of Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine book club. Set in the marshes of coastal North Carolina from the s to the s, the novel is Southern literary fiction that tells the story of Kya, a little girl who comes of age alone after her. When Delia Owens was a child, her mother used to encourage her to spend as much time as possible exploring nature, urging her to go way out to "where the crawdads sing"—something that Kya's mother also tells her in the novel. Off-Grid. Owens is familiar with the kind of isolation that Kya experiences in Where the Crawdads Sing. When she.


Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens review – in the swamps of North Carolina This lush debut about an isolated girl who finds education and solace in nature is already a US bestseller. Delia Owens is a New York Times bestselling nature writer and author of the stunning debut novel, Where the Crawdads Sing. Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver and Karen Russell, Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. In the mids, Owens co-wrote with her husband Cry of the Kalahari, which was a best-selling, nonfictional account of traveling and researching Africa’s Kalahari Desert. One of the joys of that book was the Owens’ description of the natural world, and Where the Crawdads Sing is immersed in the natural world as well. The story is set in the s and revolves around a young woman named Kya Clark, who is from extremely rural North Carolina.

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