Where the Crawdads Sing follows the life of Kya from the age of around six years old as she learns to look after herself in the wild marshlands of North Carolina. First her mum goes, leaving Kya to subsist in a shack with her father and siblings. Then one by one the older brothers and sisters wander off too, and one day a few years later her father stops coming home. Life then for Kya is a mix of loneliness, poverty and joy. Some townspeople […]
I’d sing this one for supper
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens