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Where the Crawdads Sing Book Review: The Marsh Girl Who Became a Phenomenon
Where the Crawdads Sing Book Review: Kya Clark is six years old when her mother walks away. Over the next few years, her siblings leave too, one by one, until it's just Kya and her father in a shack on the North Carolina marsh. Then her father leaves. And Kya — barefoot, barely literate, completely alone — raises herself. The marsh becomes her mother, her teacher, her everything. She learns to read the tides, to identify every bird and shell, to survive in a world that has wr
Luke Stoffel
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The Secret Life of Bees Book Review: The Women Who Save Us When We Can't Save Ourselves
The Secret Life of Bees Book Review: Lily Owens is fourteen years old, growing up in Sylvan, South Carolina, in 1964. Her mother is dead — Lily has a fractured memory of the day it happened, a memory that includes a gun and an accident she may have caused. Her father, T. Ray, is cruel in the ordinary, grinding way that some fathers are. Her only ally is Rosaleen, her Black caregiver, who gets arrested and beaten after trying to register to vote. Lily breaks Rosaleen out, and
Luke Stoffel
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