Where the Crawdads Sing

Summary

Abandoned by her family as a child, Kya Clark grows up largely alone in the marshes of coastal North Carolina, surviving through her own resourcefulness and deep knowledge of the natural world, until a local man's death draws suspicion onto the reclusive Marsh Girl the town has always shunned. Owens, a trained wildlife scientist, brings the same close observational eye she once used studying African wildlife to the marsh ecosystem that shapes Kya's isolated upbringing. The novel became one of the best selling works of fiction of its decade, propelled largely by reader word of mouth.