The book has a strong sense of place, transporting you to a different life where you can smell the salty air and sink your feet into the muddy grounds outside the seaside village. The compelling imagery is descriptive in the right places and sparse when it serves the story better instead. Nature enthusiasts will also enjoy this book, as Kya’s love of the nature around her is conveyed through detailed descriptions of the flora and fauna, a reflection of the author’s background as a former wildlife scientist. Kya’s story has elements of romance, mystery and even a courtroom thriller interlude. In terms of pacing, it is eventful and mostly fast-moving. The story focuses thematically a lot on her status as an outcast and sense of abandonment, as she is forced to fend for herself. I loved the part about Kya’s childhood it made for a unique story line as Kya learns to navigate the world on her own. Where the Crawdads Sing is about resiliency and survival, but also alienation. Ultimately, though, my curiosity won out as it hung in the bestseller lists, and I’m very glad it did. I was intrigued immediately when I saw it in the bookstore, though I put off reading it for a while. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens opens with a picture of a map and the discovery of a dead body in the marshes of North Carolina. If this summary was useful to you, please consider supporting this site by leaving a tip ( $2, $3, or $5) or joining the Patreon! The book ends with Tate destroying the poems and tossing the necklace into the ocean.įor more detail, see the full Section-by-Section Summary. Tate goes through her things and discovers evidence (in the form of a poem Kya wrote under a pseudonym and notably Chase's shell necklace) that Kya killed Chase. Time passes, and Kya and Tate turn her shack into a nice cottage and remain there. But Kya is found not guilty, and she and Tate profess their love for each other. The trial proceeds (reviewing evidence such as the missing necklace, fibers found on Chase's body, Kya's whereabouts, plus Chase had attacked Kya after being rebuffed two months before his death). Eventually, Kya is arrested for Chase's death. Notably, Chase's shell necklace that he always wore was not found on his body. In 1969, Kya is identified as a suspect in the Chase Andrews murder. Eventually, Kya's book is published in 1968. He also wants to help Kya turn her nature diagrams into a book. Meanwhile, Tate comes back and apologizes for what happened. He promises to marry her, but Kya soon discovers that Chase is actually engaged to someone else. One day, Chase takes her to the fire tower, and she gives him a shell necklace as a gift. Chase Andrews has been pursuing Kya aggressively, and she finally gives in to his advances. (Flash forward) Many years later, the body of Chase Andrews, the town hotshot and ladies' man, is found in the swamp at the bottom of the fire tower. He doesn't return, and Kya gives up on him. When Tate leaves for college, he promises to come back, but later Tate worries that Kya (wild and unkempt) can't fit into his world. Kya and Tate reconnect, he teaches her to read, and it grows into a romance. As she grows up, Kya develops a keen knowledge of the outdoors. When Kya is 10, Pa disappears (a couple nearby, Jumpin' and Mabel, help Kya to survive). Kya meets Tate, a boy from town that befriends her. In Part I, Kya Clark grows up with her abusive father in a shack in the swampy outskirts of town in the 1950's (her mother and siblings all leave due because of Pa's abuse). The Prologue opens with the discovery of the body of Chase Andrews in a swamp in 1969.
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