Where the Crawdads Sing

I enjoyed the first half of the book; reading it felt like reading something from a fantasy world of my own, alone in the wild, away from humanity, only with the added starkness of reality that surrounds it. Kya's reality is heartbreakingly sad, facing conditions that no child must ever be made to face. The writing with all the descriptions made it very easy to teleport myself into Kya's world. I think I enjoyed it less only because I knew certain things that were to happen, and the controversies around the writer sort of put a damper on my mood. But all the same, it was an interesting read with many themes and lessons to be learnt.