Where the Crawdads Sing
By Delia OwensThis book was recommended to me by a close friend and I’m glad that I read it. It was not the kind of
mystery novel I was expecting but I still ended up enjoying it. You meet Kya, who is known as the “marsh
girl” in this story, because she lives alone in the marsh. In the book, it switches between time periods in
different chapters as it alternates from the present, where a murder case was being investigated, to the
past, where you can see Kya’s childhood and history. Each chapter slowly unravels different parts of the