2021: Where the Crawdads Sing

2021: Where the Crawdads Sing

Call it a global haunting what DELIA OWENS’s novel, Where the Crawdads Sing, has done to millions of readers. Deeply felt and beautifully written, it is the story of Kya, an abandoned girl who survives on her own in the wild marshlands of coastal North Carolina, her loneliness as palpable as her resilience and her affinity for the natural world. And oh that world Owens conjures—the gulls and egrets, the grasses and waterways, the squalls and sunsets. Finally drawn out of her solitude by the prospect of human connection, Kya becomes part of a murder mystery and a love story. Owens, a wildlife scientist and award-winning nature writer, will talk about her inspiration for the book and the issues it raises about male violence and female survival, the beauty and fragility of the earth, and the marshlands her heroine so loves. She will also share her thoughts and excitement about the upcoming major motion picture.

Read more about Delia Owens here.