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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING
BY DELIA OWENS
Kya is just five when she watches her mother, carrying a packed suitcase and wearing her fake alligator high-heeled shoes, walk out on her alcoholic husband, her four children and the shack they all live in. One by one the remaining children follow suit, except for Kya: too young to leave, she has to learn how to survive both the marsh and her father.
When he doesn’t return from a fishing trip one day, she’s left entirely alone. She devises a plan to pick oysters and mussels to sell to a local man in order to buy a few provisions and gas for the
