![]() Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. ![]() The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.Īlicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. The clues to the mystery are brushed into the lush habitat and natural histories of its wild creatures.Īlicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. The story asks how isolation influences the behavior of a young woman, who like all of us, has the genetic propensity to belong to a group. Thought-provoking, wise, and deeply moving, Owens’s debut novel reminds us that we are forever shaped by the child within us, while also subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps. In Where the Crawdads Sing, Owens juxtaposes an exquisite ode to the natural world against a profound coming of age story and haunting mystery. Drawn to two young men from town, who are each intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world-until the unthinkable happens. But while she has the skills to live in solitude forever, the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life's lessons from the land, learning the real ways of the world from the dishonest signals of fireflies. So in late 1969, when the popular Chase Andrews is found dead, locals immediately suspect her.īut Kya is not what they say. ![]() Kya Clark is barefoot and wild unfit for polite society. For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet fishing village. ![]()
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