Sarasota County Libraries discussion

Which scene from this book has stuck with you the most?

there is a passage that I fell in love with :

“Sometimes she heard night-sounds she didn’t know or jumped from lightning too close, but whenever she stumbled, it was the land who caught her. Until at last, at some unclaimed moment, the heart-pain seeped away like water into sand. Still there, but deep. Kya laid her hand upon the breathing, wet earth, and the marsh became her mother.”

She doesn't have a choice but to adopt the earth as her mother. It is both heartbreaking and beautiful.

This book sings in a way crawdads could only dream about. I love that it was written by a woman in her 60s, and I think is her first fiction novel. There are so many memorable scenes, but for me it is the ongoing description of the Nature’s rhythm of life on the island that gripped my soul. Not since Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinkers Creek have such passages as the one LYNN shared here moved me, as well as this one, “time is no more fixed than the stars. Time speeds and bends around planets and suns, is different in the mountains than in the valleys, and is part of the same fabric as space, which curves and swells as does the sea.” The one scene that kept haunting me throughout the book was the early scene of her mother walking away from the house and down to path with her suitcase.