Where the Crawdads Sing

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Delia Owens: Where the Crawdads Sing (2019, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)

384 pages

English language

Published Dec. 25, 2019 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-4721-5466-8
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Where the Crawdads Sing is a 2018 novel by American author Delia Owens. It has topped The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 2019 and The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 2020 for a combined 32 non-consecutive weeks. As of late February 2022, the book has spent 150 weeks on the best seller list.The story follows two timelines that slowly intertwine. The first timeline describes the life and adventures of a young girl named Kya as she grows up isolated in the marsh of North Carolina from 1952 to 1969. The second timeline follows an investigation into the apparent murder of Chase Andrews, a local celebrity of Barkley Cove, a fictional coastal town of North Carolina.The book was selected for Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Book Club in September 2018 and for Barnes & Noble's Best Books of 2018. By December 2019, the book had sold over 4.5 …

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Subjects

  • Fiction, coming of age
  • North carolina, fiction
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, historical