Kia Clark is rumored to be a wolf child, a "swamp girl" in the quiet North Carolina coastal town of Barkley Cove. After her mother abandons her one morning in August, her older siblings gradually leave, and finally, after many drunken nights, not even her father returns, Kya is left all alone. Although not quite… Kya is an intelligent and sensitive girl. She lives in harmony with nature, fending for herself in the swamp she calls home. He watches herons, collects shells and fishes. Her best friends are the seagulls and the boy Tate, who, like Kya, loves nature and everything that emanates from it. He teaches a young girl to read and they become inseparable friends. There also comes a time in her life when she longs for the closeness of other people, touches and love. But one day Tate leaves and Kya, already a young woman, is left alone again. Her fierce beauty charms the young man from the city, Chase Andrews, and a whole new life opens up for Kyo. When Chase's body is found lifeless in the swamp on October 13, 1969, the townspeople begin to suspect the swamp girl, Kya Clarke, of his murder. But the swamp knows everything about death, it knows that death doesn't always have to be a tragedy. The novel Where the Crayfish Sing is a beautiful ode to nature, a story of an abandoned teenage girl who learns to trust people, and an account of a murder mystery with a surprising ending. Delia Owens reminds us that childhood marks us all for life and that we are all subject to the wonderful mysteries of nature.