Monthly Book Pick: Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

“Sometimes she heard night-sounds she didn’t know or jumped from lightning too close, but whenever she stumbled, it was the land who caught her. Until at last, at some unclaimed moment, the heart-pain seeped away like water into sand. Still there, but deep. Kya laid her hand upon the breathing, wet earth, and the marsh became her mother.”

I hope you’re hanging in there and that you’re having a relaxing summer! We need a new book pick...and I have the perfect one selected for you. Where the Crawdads Sing is a stunningly heart-wrenching tale of maturing and navigating how to let yourself be vulnerable to the world. 

Barkley Cove is a quaint town on the North Carolina coast that is constantly whispering, the murmurs of the river accompanied by rumors of a “marsh girl” who lives by herself with nature as her mother. In the late 1960s, charming Chase Andrews is found dead, and the police can only think of one girl capable of the deed. But Kya Clark, AKA marsh-girl, is not who the town thinks she is. She has survived by learning about the marsh, the calls of the gulls her bedtime stories, and life-threatening lessons her education. Then comes the time when Kya yearns for love and more to her life, and two boys from town become intrigued by her beauty. Kya makes herself vulnerable for the first time in her life, and then the unimaginable happens. 

While reading this book, I could almost hear the cicadas signing in the trees and the cries of strange birds in the night. Pick this book up and you won’t regret it.