Tuesday, May 5, 2020

I think Pat Conroy would have liked this

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens;2018; $26.00; 368 pages; G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, NY; 978-0-7532-1909-0; borrowed from Diana Lee Jackson; 4/28/2020-5/3/2020 

I truly believe that if Pat Conroy was still with us that he would have had something good to say about this book.  Delia Owens writes in a style similar to Pat Conroy and John Larison.  
She tells the story of Kya a very young girl in the marshes who is ultimately abandoned by every member of her family and left to fend for herself.  She becomes very knowledgeable about the marsh and it inhabitants.  She becomes involved with a couple of men who are two sides of a coin, but both are well rounded characters.  Each character is very well formed and the story is engrossing.  

10/10 

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