Where The Crawdads Sing

For years, "Marsh Girl" rumors have overshadowed Barclay Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when a handsome stalker is found handsome, locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kia is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marshes that she calls home, finding friends in gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she longs to be touched and loved. When two young men from the city are preoccupied with its wild beauty, Kia opens herself up to a new life - until the unimaginable happens.

Croadades simultaneously sang a wonderful poem of the natural world, a heartbreaking upcoming story, and a surprising tale of a possible murder. Owens reminds us that we have been forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature maintains.