Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing was in a big box of books given to me by a friend. The story started out a bit slow but I am glad I continued with it.

Kya has never known anything but the marsh to bring her safety. With a drunk and abusive father she learns to hide in the marsh to keep him for hurting her. Abandoned by her mother and eventually siblings Kya learns to take care of herself. Using the marsh for food and eventually learning to trade at the local shanty town for things like gas and grits Kya scratches out a small existence. Life is good until a local man is found dead.

The second half of the story was defiantly fast paced compared to the first half. I could not put down Where the Crawdads Sing about about the 60% mark and just read straight though. The writing was smooth and transitioned easily even when jumping between two time periods. I did get a bit bored with all the poetry that seemed randomly inserted and eventually just skipped reading the poems.