Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens was released as a book on August 14, 2018, and the movie version was released not long after, on July 15, 2022. The movie trailers made a lot of big promises, we would finally see Kya on the big screen, not just in our own heads. Yet Where the Crawdads Sing is a perfect example of why books don’t always translate well into film. Book Summary Where The Crawdads Sing is a story told in dual timelines, set in Barkley Cove, and follows the life of a young girl named Kya. We meet Kya as a child, dealing with the repercussions of an…