Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens • 2018
Devastation Rating
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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