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Rating: 5.0/5.0

Genre:
Historical

Synopsis:
This is the story of The Marsh Girl right from her childhood when she was abandoned by her family until her adulthood. Kya Clark's story is an extraordinary tale of courage, loneliness, isolation, love, and warmness. Loved by two different guys Andrew Chase & Tate, Kya has lost faith in other people who always leave her eventually.

Book Structure:
The book is around 370 pages divided into 57 chapters. It is a third-person's narration. The story follows the main protagonist Kya from childhood to her adulthood.

"Over the years the mysteries of her story became legend, told over and over with buttermilk pancakes and hot pork sausages at the dinner."

This is one of those books that are hard to review because I feel I cannot make enough justice to it. The writing is so lyrical & beautiful, be it the beautiful descriptions of the settings and nature or the detailed layers the characters had. They all merge into one marvelous piece of art literary fiction.
The story is very emotional and readers will root for the main character and sympathize with her for what she had to go through. It can be slow at times, but I feel the slowness of events at times helped me as a reader to feel the loneliness of the character.

Besides the main character, there are many side characters that one will love. The author did a great job in giving all these characters different shades of insecurities which is something very human. The other highlight of this book is the multiple important subjects it tackles subtly like human's connection with nature, family, and the outer world.

The Marsh Girl has won my heart! Delia Owens has one new fan. I have to get and read her other books. If you have not read Where the Crawdads Sing yet you should do that very soon. You won't regret it. This book was nominated as one of the best historical fiction in the ŷ������ Choice Awards 2018. It was the fifth most voted book for that award. It's 5 stars for me.