Acolo unde cinta racii

Kya Clark grows up alone after her family leaves her. She lives in the marshes on North Carolina’s coast. Gulls keep her company. The land teaches her how to stay alive. People in nearby Barkley Cove spread tales about her. Chase Andrews turns up dead in late 1969. The townspeople think Kya may have killed him.

Yet Kya longs for love and a place among others. Two young men take an interest in her. They give her hope of a less lonely life. They also bring changes she cannot foresee.

This is Delia Owens’s first novel. It blends a murder mystery, a tale of growing up, and romance. It suits fans of these genres and writing about nature. It asks how being alone shapes what people do. It asks how being shunned shapes their acts, too.

Owens studied zoology, the study of animals, at the University of Georgia. She earned a doctorate at the University of California. Her field was ethology, the study of how animals behave. She worked as a naturalist in Africa, studying the natural world. Her former husband, Mark, worked there with her. They wrote three books together about that work. She won the John Burroughs Award for science writing. Her articles appeared in Nature and African Journal of Ecology. She also wrote for International Wildlife. She lives in Idaho.

This is a translation of Where the Crawdads Sing. It forms part of the Anansi Contemporan collection. This tie-in edition has a film cover. Olivia Newman directed the film. Reese Witherspoon produced it. Daisy Edgar-Jones, Garret Dillahunt, and Harris Dickinson are among its cast.