Where the Crawdads Sing: Reese's Book Club (A Novel)

Delia Owens

Aug 2018 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Cassandra Campbell

About this audiobook

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PHENOMENON—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!
More than 18 million copies sold worldwide
A Reese’s Book Club Pick
A Business Insider Defining Book of the Decade 

“I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!”—Reese Witherspoon

“Painfully beautiful.”—The New York Times Book Review

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.

Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens 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 nature keeps.

Ratings and reviews

I am just getting back into reading/audiobooking and this book was an amazing one to start with. The author does such a good job of describing people and places, you can see it all happening in your head, and it's beautiful. The voices of the narrator were a little rough and distracting at the start, but I feel it didn't take away from the book, and you do end up getting used to it.

I must ask, why complain when you paid to “listen” to someone “read” a story to you? I find it appalling people with such short attention spans take the time to complain, much the less write a bad review about the person’s voice who narrates the book! Next time, consider buying the book, and enjoy the God given sense of “imagination” and hearing those voices yourself. The idea is to enjoy the story; allow the story to take shape as writers intend. To thrust you into another place in time for sheer enjoyment. God forbid you weren’t just blown away by their prose. Writing is very hard work. Authors slave over every word, each fine detail. I imagine how disappointing it must be to read petty complaints because people don’t like the voice chosen for an “audio version”. Good grief! How spoiled are we as a society? Pretty pathetic, really. Here’s a thought, pick up a book with actual pages and read them aloud yourself. Record it. How does it sound? Pretty awful? Maybe great! Then maybe sell your excellent oral skills! If you you chose the former, Try this. Open your laptop to Word,and begin hammering away on a blank document telling your own story for say, eight months to a few years or so. Then maybe you can appreciate writing, all that it entails; The fact checking, formatting into an industry standard manuscript likely never even to be read. God forbid you have to rewrite a scene or two to adjust to your editors liking. (Did I mention trying to find someone who will publish you?) You could just self-publish, spend every dime to your name in hopes of making a best seller list somewhere or getting the least bit of acknowledgment from on a blog or popular publication. Yes, indeed please try and you will see how it feels when someone shuts you down because they don’t like the spine of the book or perhaps the way the pages feel between their fingers... It’s there and only then that you realize a writer’s dedication is solely to the YOU, the reader... And sadly, somehow it just doesn’t work in your favor when the tables turn. For goodness sake your reader wasn’t utterly moved by your work so they open their browser on a device and write a scathing review that has absolutely NOTHING to do with your hard work. Maybe it’s the fact there are so many books, or maybe the reader is h-angry, or lonesome ...and they happen to enjoy stamping out any good left in the world. I have a Mother in Law like this. It would physically pain her to gift me a complement. After all it is her world, we all just happen to live in it. # The End.

I truly loved this book I am an avid reader I read this one from the actual book glad I did because I truly felt like I was there.awsome story can't wait to see what else she can do. Although I have something funny to say The poetry was b so good I found myself googling the b author could find it off course aft the end I got a great laugh

About the author

Delia Owens is the coauthor of three internationally bestselling nonfiction books about her life as a wildlife scientist in Africa. She holds a BS in Zoology from the University of Georgia and a PhD in Animal Behavior from the University 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.