Where The Crawdads Sing, Owen - B +

                                               I join everyone else in America praising and lauding this book. The life of Kya Clark, the 'Marsh Girl', involves abandonment by her family at six. She deals with the challenges of living alone,  utterly lonely, in a primitive state in the 1950's and 1960's in North Carolina's Great Dismal Swamp. The fact that she triumphs and we have a happy ending is a pure delight.