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Sep 14, 2019lukasevansherman rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
Maybe read this article before reading the book: slate.com/culture/2019/07/delia-owens-crawdads-murder-africa.html Every book club's favorite book of 2019 is the debut novel by Delia Owens, an elderly white woman who worked in Africa and now lives in Idaho. I'm not sure why she thought she could write a book, much less one about a murder set in Louisiana in the 60s and 70s. Here's a sentence to give you a sample of her style: "Tutored by millions of minutes alone, Kya thought she knew lonely." I did not like this book, its swampy atmosphere was redolent of far better writers like James Lee Burke, while its clunky murder plot would make John Grisham blush. I bet they'll make a movie. I'd cast Kristen Stewart as Kya and Morgan Freeman as the judge. "Way out wonder, where the crawdads sing." Note: crawdads do not actually sing.