“Most of what she knew, she'd learned from the wild. Nature had nurtured, tutored, and protected her when no one else would.”

she lifted her hand and held the elegant swan feather toward him. Slowly, as though she might spring like a startled fawn, he walked over and studied it in her hand. She watched in silence, looking only at the feather, not his face, nowhere near his eyes.” - p.68

Where the Crawdads Sing

Chase Andrews

Sheriff Ed Jackson and Deputy Joe Purdue

Jodie

Jumpin'

Ma (Kya's mother)

Mabel

Tate Walker

But what did it all mean?

April book club: Where the Crawdads Sing

Crawdads on the silver screen

Now that we’ve all read ‘Where the Crawdads Sing,’ can we talk about the ending?

Stereotypes

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens review – in the swamps of North Carolina

Plot or detail — what did it do for you?

Oddity after oddity

Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People

The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness

Cry of the Kalahari

Delia Owens talks all things ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’, interviewed by Chris Schleup for Amazon Charts

Delia Owens, 'Where the Crawdads Sing', speaking at Politics and Prose

Friday Morning Coffee: Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens talking to Daniel Ford on Writer's Bone

Loneliness

A-Z of mindfulness in nature

Connecting with the natural world

What are crawdads and how do they sing?

The Graveyard of the Atlantic

The Great Dismal Swamp

A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp by Thomas Moore

Po' Boy Sandwich

Ava Wrestles the Alligator

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: Race and the United States

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The Wildfowl and Wetland Trust (WWT)

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Where the Crawdads Sing

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