Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens
After her family abandons her, one by one, ten-year-old Kya Clark learns to fend for herself into adulthood in a North Carolina swamp in literary novel WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING. Her only friend and first love, Tate, brings her books and teaches her to read but then leaves to attend university. A few years later, Kya is once again betrayed by her fiancé, Chase, and is subsequently tried for his murder. Acquitted and released back into the wild, Kya keeps a dark secret while sketching the plants and animals she loves and welcoming Tate back into her life.
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NOTE: The above is a sample pitch that I wrote for instructional purposes only. This “pitch” was written after the book was published and was never used by the author or anyone else to actually pitch a book.
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2 thoughts on “Literary Novel Where the Crawdads Sing”
Crawdads: This book sold more copies than the Bible. One might be tempted to say: “If everybody likes it, there must be something wrong with it.” (After all, Delia is not Shakespeare.) But if one’s goal was to sell books, the swamp might be a good place to start.
If the swamp is anything like the marsh, I like it. But not the mosquitoes or alligators! So, maybe I wouldn’t like it so much after all. As for Delia Owens, no, she’s not Shakespeare, but she wrote an interesting story with an intriguing main character. I liked it. But then, I’m a Southerner, so, what do you expect, right?