Bekah and Jenna review “Where the Crawdads Sing” a book written by an author with a dark past.

Red Wine Reads

This week, we read Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Bekah joins me on this episode to discuss:

• The dark past of author, Delia Owens, that may or may not influence the plot/characters of the book.
• What order you should read the “Where the Crawdads Sing” trifecta including book, movie, and New Yorker article.
• How this book became a phenomenon among book clubs and Reese Witherspoon fans.

Open your book and press play on a podcast episode that will have you running barefoot into the marsh and talking with all the birds.

Mentioned in the Pairings section of the podcast:

• DRINK: Sweet Tea with Whiskey
• TV SHOW - Big Little Lies, Outer Banks, The Last Thing He Told Me
• BOOK - The Great Alone, To Kill a Mockingbird
• MOVIE - Safe Haven, Gone Girl, Girl On The Train, The Woman In the Window

Important links mentioned in the podcast:

“The Hunted” - The New Yorker

“Where the Crawdads Sing Author Wanted for Questioning in Murder” - The Atlantic

“A Shooting in Zambia” - The New Yorker

Quick Summary: For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life—until the unthinkable happens.

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