“Owens’s familiar, detailed descriptions set the scene for Where the Crawdads Sing…. Through Kya’s story, Owens explores how isolation affects human behavior, and the deep effect that rejection can have on our lives.”
Julia Vitale, "Carry These New Books with You Wherever You Go," Vanity Fair, July 9, 2018.
IndieBound puts CRAWDADS on their August Indie Next List, featuring recommendations from independent booksellers of new and forthcoming books.
Independent bookstores are such a wonderful part of our communities, I'm honored by this recognition.
Entertainment Weekly has called Where the Crawdads Sing one of "August's hottest reads," in its list of "20 new books to read in August." Thank you, EW!
“The New Southern Novel
The lyrical debut novel of writer Delia Owens (who grew up among the pines in Thomasville, Georgia, and has since traveled the globe) is a mystery steeped in the natural world. It follows a young girl named Kya Clark, who is abandoned in the marshes along the North Carolina coast and learns to survive there on her own until outside forces encroach.”
Calling CRAWDADS "the new southern novel," Southern Living has included it in their list of "6 Books All Your Friends Are Reading" for August. Thank you, Southern Living!
Where the Crawdads Sing has been selected by Amazon editors' for their Editors' Picks list, as one of the top ten best books for August. It's a great honor finding Crawdads on this list! Many thanks to Amazon's editors.
SIBA, the Southern Independent Book Alliance, has selected CRAWDADS as an OKRA Pick, their seasonal lineup of the Best Southern Literature.
This is such an honor. My thanks to SIBA's editors.
“Delia Owen’s gorgeous novel, Where the Crawdads Sing, is both a coming-of-age tale and an engrossing whodunit.”
Real Simple is featuring CRAWDADS in “The Short List: Five Books that Won't Disappoint” in the August issue. Online, CRAWDADS appears in RealSimple's “Best Books of 2018 (So Far).”
“When Delia Owens was growing up in Thomasville, Georgia, her mother encouraged her to venture deep into the wilderness, saying, ‘Go way out yonder where the crawdads sing.’
Owens took that advice to heart.”
Read more in the BookPage interview about how I came to write Where The Crawdads Sing.
Alice Cary, "Delia Owens: A natural way of storytelling," BookPage, August 2018.
BookPage, one of the premier print and online publications of book reviews, has chosen CRAWDADS as one of its top titles for August and is featuring CRAWDADS on the cover.
Online, CRAWDADS appears in their list of “First Fiction: 11 best debuts of 2018 (so far!).”
Publisher's Weekly has named Where the Crawdads Sing one of its top literary fiction titles for Fall!
It is an honor to be included on this list alongside novels by authors J.D. Barker, Dacre Stoker, and John Sandford.
Jonathan Segura, "Fall 2018 Adult Announcements: The big titles of autumn," Publisher's Weekly,
June 22, 2018.