\;Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will lov e this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature write r\, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the w ilds of North Carolina\, and the two men that will break her isolation ope n. For years\, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove\, a qu iet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild\; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969\, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dea d\, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say . Abandoned at age ten\, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist with just one day of school\, she takes lif e lessons from the land\, learning from the false signals of fireflies the real way of this world. But while she could have lived in solitude foreve r\, the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. Drawn to two y oung men from town\, who are each intrigued by her wild beauty\, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world--until the unthinkable happens. In W here the Crawdads Sing\, Owens juxtaposes an exquisite ode to the natural world against a heartbreaking coming of age story and a surprising murder investigation. Thought-provoking\, wise\, and deeply moving\, Owens's debu t novel reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were \, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that n ature keeps.
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