Q. I really loved the book Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. Could you recommend some other books like it?
A. Where the Crawdads Sing is our most popular book at the San Marcos Public Library with the highest number of checkouts, two years in a row.
If you haven’t read Where the Crawdads Sing, here is a brief synopsis: For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild, and unfit for polite society. In late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, but Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age 10, she has survived on her own in the marsh she calls home. While she could have lived in solitude forever, the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. Drawn to two young men from town, each intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world — until the unthinkable happens.
