Book Recommendation: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
If you appreciate nature like we do, this a book you will enjoy. Roy sums up the plot well, and gives you some insight into the talented author, Delia Owens. We saw her interviewed on CBS Sunday Morning, and heard her in a subsequent interview on NPR. We were sold!
Book Recommendation: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Where the Crawdads Sing (2018) is the story of a young girl struggling to make it on her own in the coastal marshes of North Carolina. This the debut novel by the award winning author Delia Owens. Dolores and I enjoyed this book and highly recommend it for your reading list. Click in the links to learn more about the author and books written with her husband Mark Owens.
"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. She has won the John Burroughs Award for Nature Writing and has been published in Nature, The African Journal of Ecology, and International Wildlife, among many others. She currently lives in Idaho, where she continues her support for the people and wildlife of Zambia. Where the Crawdads Sing is her first novel." - Goodreads
Goodreads Review of Where the Crawdads Sing
"For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life–until the unthinkable happens.
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. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps."
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