Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens 2018

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
grief loss survival literary fiction

Our Take

The marsh girl who raised herself while everyone looked away. Owens writes abandonment as ecology — Kya is shaped by every person who left, every wound the land absorbed. The mystery is almost beside the point. What haunts is the loneliness, and the question of what surviving costs you.

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