Book Review- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
A recent movie adaption of this novel with the same title Where the Crawdads Sing led me to this read. Although the movie is yet to be watched, this book has left me with a spellbinding story. The novel captivated me with its mystery till the end. The story revolves around the wild girl named Catherine “Kya” Clark also popularly called “The Marsh Girl,” or “swamp trash”. She is a figure of paradox and prejudice in the remote North Carolina coastal community of Barkley Cove in the 1950s and '60s. The novel tells the tale in two timelines that slowly intertwine. The first timeline describes the life and adventures of a young Kya as she grows up isolated in the marsh of North Carolina. The second timeline follows an investigation into the apparent murder of Chase Andrews, a local celebrity of Barkley Cove, a fictional North Carolina coastal town. Abandoned by her mother who is no longer able to withstand her drunken husband’s beatings and then by her four siblings, Kya grows up in ...