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Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

On the North Carolina coast, the Marsh Girl is a rumor long before she is a person anyone bothers to know. Kya Clark grows up in a shack at the edge of Barkley Cove after her family leaves one by one, learning tides, gulls, and how to stay alive when the town would rather watch than help. When Chase Andrews is found dead at an abandoned fire tower in 1969, Barkley Cove already has a suspect. Delia Owens's 2018 debut is a nature hymn, a coming-of-age, and a courtroom mystery — and a book-club magnet for anyone ready to argue about loneliness, belonging, and what the marsh teaches that a jury cannot.

“Marsh is not swamp. Marsh is a space of light, where grass grows in water, and water flows into the sky.”

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