Where The Crawdads Sing

For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding 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 beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life--until the unthinkable happens.

Delia Owens is the co-author of three internationally bestselling nonfiction books about her life as a wildlife sicentist in Africa. She holds a BS in Zoology from the University of Georgia and A PhD in Animal Behaviour from the Unversity of California at Davis. She has won the John Burroughs Award for Nature Writing and has been published in Nature, The African Journal of Ecology and International Wildlife, among many others. She lives in the mountains of North Carolina. Where the Crawdads Sing is her first novel.