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   Aug 14, 2018 · WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING is a gentle yet symbolic depiction of the valiant survival of Kya Clark—a reclusive young girl who has been abandoned by her parents, siblings, school system, the entire town surrounding her, and what ultimately feels like life itself.

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   Title: Where the crawdads sing / Delia Owens. Description: New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2018. Identifiers: LCCN 2018010775| ISBN 9780735219090 (hardback) | ISBN 9780735219113 (epub) Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Coming of Age. | FICTION / Contemporary Women. Classification: LCC PS3615.W447 W48 2018 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

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   • Delia Owens Got The Title of The Bookfrom A Saying of Her Mother’S.
   • Owens Wrote A Bestselling Memoir.
   • Animal Behavior Provided Inspiration For The Story.
   • Owens’s Own Experiences Informed The Novel as well.
   • Owens Wrote The Ending first.
   • The Structure of The Story Ended Up Causing The Author Some Problems, though.
   • The Book’S Success Surprised The Publishing Industry.
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   The title Where the Crawdads Sing was inspired by Owens’s mother, who encouraged her daughter to explore the woods near their home in rural Georgia by saying, “Go way out yonder where the crawdads sing.” Owens would eventually find out that the phrase isn’t literal—it refers to being so deep in the wilderness that you can hear things that you could...

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   Prior to Where the Crawdads Sing, Owens co-wrote three memoirs with her then-husband Mark about their time in Africa. The first, 1984’s Cry of the Kalahari, was a bestseller and won the 1985 John Burroughs Medal, which honors booksabout natural history.

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   Owens, who has a B.S. in zoology and a Ph.D. in animal behavior (from the University of Georgia and the University of California, Davis, respectively), lived in Africa for more than two decades studying animals; she became fascinated by how many of them were part of “very strong female social groups.” This gave her an idea: “I became determined to ...

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   Owens, like her heroine Kya, has lived an isolated life. “My entire life inspired this novel,” the author told Northern Virginia Magazine, adding, “None of the plot was based on a true story and Kya is not based on a real person. But there is a lot of me in Kya … like Kya, I am an outside girl, who loves nature, who has studied wildlife and ecosyst...

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   We won’t spoil it here, but Where the Crawdads Sing’s much buzzed about ending was the first thing that Owens wrote. “The idea for the ending came to me suddenly, so I started there,” she told Entertainment Weekly in 2018. “Then I jumped back to the beginning and braided the two storylines together toward the end. Weaving together all the pieces—th...

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   Where the Crawdads Singjumps back and forth between two time periods, which Owens told EW “was not that difficult to write in the first few drafts.” But the structure became an issue during the editorial process. “When I decided to move some of the time shifts forward or backward in the story, a nightmare ensued,” she said. “All of the little detai...

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   While sales of adult fiction have gone down in recent years, even among established authors, Where the Crawdads Sing is an anomaly. “I’ve never seen anything like this in 30 years,” Jaci Updike, president of sales for Penguin Random House (the parent group of Crawdad publisher G. P. Putnam’s Sons), told The New York Times in 2019. “This book has br...

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   Among the book’s most famous fans are Reese Witherspoon and Taylor Swift. Witherspoon, who picked the novel for her Hello Sunshine book club in 2018 and produced the film adaption, called Where the Crawdads Sing “a love letter to growing up in the south.” Swift, meanwhile, wrote an original song about the book after reading it called “Carolina,” wh...

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   Nov 4, 2019 · This was a book I did not want to end, but I will look forward to her next adventure, mystery, a slice of life, about strength and fortitude that she writes in her lyrical prose. Delia ownes where the crawdads sing.

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   • Where the Crawdads Sing became a surprise bestseller when it was published in 2018: It has sold more than 12 million copies, hit the top of the New York Times bestseller list more than once, and been adapted into movie out July 15.

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   • Delia Owens's 'Where the Crawdads Sing' is a bildungsroman, a survivalist thriller, a love story, a whodunit, and a meditation on nature all rolled into one.

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   Who wrote where the Crawdads sing?

   • Owens wrote a bestselling memoir. Prior to Where the Crawdads Sing, Owens co-wrote three memoirs with her then-husband Mark about their time in Africa. The first, 1984’s Cry of the Kalahari, was a bestseller and won the 1985 John Burroughs Medal, which honors books about natural history. 3. Animal behavior provided inspiration for the story.

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   • the Crawdads Sing was released in 2018 to immediate and unprecedented acclaim. Several years and quite a few reprints later, i has broken numerous publishing records and garnered multiple literary awards. Reese Witherspoon and The Duche s of Cornwall promoted it in their book clubs. Hollywood is producing a

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   By Delia Owens. Guide written by Laura Reis Mayer. G.P. Putnam’s Sons. Paperback | 9780735219106 | 400 pp | $18.00. Reading Level: Grades 9-12 + AP/IB. ——————————————————————————Where. the Crawdads Sing was released in 2018 to immediate and unprecedented acclaim. Several years and quite a ...