Where the Crawdads Sing

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREΓÇöThe #1 New York Times bestselling worldwide sensation with more than 15 million copies sold,hailed by The New York Times Book Review as ΓÇ£a painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mysterya coming-of-age narrative and a celebration of nature.ΓÇ¥ For yearsrumors of the ΓÇ£Marsh GirlΓÇ¥ have haunted Barkley Covea quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969when handsome Chase Andrews is found deadthe locals immediately suspect Kya Clarkthe so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligentshe has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls homefinding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beautyKya opens herself to a new lifeΓÇöuntil the unthinkable happens. Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural worlda heartbreaking coming-of-age storyand a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once wereand that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.