Where the Crawdads Sing

Title: Where the Crawdads Sing Author: Owens, Delia ISBN: 9780735219106 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Published: 2021 Binding: Book Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Fiction 1368792 Publisher Description: SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE--The #1 New York Times bestselling worldwide sensation with more than 12 million copies sold, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "a painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age narrative and a celebration of nature." For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the t