In this Part 2 episode of Where The Crawdads Sing, Lisa, and her guest Jennifer Byrd have an insightful conversation delving into the book's second part. There will be significant spoilers for the book.
Lisa is releasing this revisited episode on July 13, 2022 - the day the movie of Where the Crawdads Sing will be released.
Lisa and Jennifer discussed 2019 piece in Slate, titled “The Dark History Behind the Year’s Bestselling Debut Novel.” The piece discusses how a long-ago murder in Africa influenced Delia Owens’ book. Delia Owens is not a suspect in that case.
However, her stepson Christopher and her ex-husband were implicated by some witnesses and this event was the subject of “The Haunted,” an article by Jeffrey Goldberg and published in the New Yorker.
Books Discussed:
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
Starfish by Lisa Fipps
Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson
The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog by Bruce Perry
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