Genre: Book
Grade: A
Notable People: Delia Owens
Title: “Where the Crawdads Sing””
Review: another in long line of culturally sensitive books my daughter has given me, with obvious implications. This is Owens, a longtime Naturalist’s first novel, and it a gem. Set in coastal North Carolina from 1952 to 1970, it is the story of “The Marsh Girl” (Kya) , a young woman deserted by all her family as a seven year old, who raises herself in the wetlands of the remote Outer Banks. It’s a masterful Whodunit mixed in with a beautiful coming of age story and a treatise of the ecology of the swamp. Beautifully written and told, with characters that jump off the page. Starts a bit slowly, but becomes hypnotic………….did not want it to end……ever.