![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As far as public knowledge goes, there was never a woman who lived in a marsh and got away with killing a man who was after her. Put simply, Where the Crawdads Sing is not based on a true story. YouTube Icon YouTube Icon Is Where the Crawdads Sing Based on a True Story? Turns out, the answer is a lot messier than you’d expect. The complicated nature of how Kya gets away with murder, as well as the way she’s able to create lemonade from the lemon that is her life (read: she’s abandoned by her family but manages to become a well-respected author), has readers and viewers wondering whether the story might be rooted in a little bit of truth. She is not convicted, only for the reader to find out, in the last few pages, that she did in fact kill her one-time romantic interest. Toward the end of the book, Kya is on trial for the murder. When Chase is discovered dead in the marsh, Kya becomes the primary suspect. Although she’s ostracized by the nearby town, Kya eventually grabs the attention of two different men, Tate (Smith) and Chase (Dickinson), and unwittingly creates a love triangle. ![]() Produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine production company, the film hits theaters on July 13 and tells the story of Kya (Edgar-Jones), a woman who lives in the North Carolina marshland and raises herself from a young age. Penned by Delia Owens and published in 2018, Where the Crawdads Sing is now a movie starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, and Harris Dickinson. Spoilers for Where the Crawdads Sing follow. ![]()
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