Ripples Book Club, August 2026 — Delia Owens: Where the Crawdads Sing
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Welcome to our English-language book club!
This book club is for you if you’d like to:
• meet like-minded people and have engaging conversations about the books we read
• improve or maintain your English vocabulary, reading comprehension, and speaking skills
Participation is free for now, but registration is required so we can keep the group small and comfortable (maximum 10 people). If you’d like to join, send me an email to [email protected] and I’ll confirm your registration provided that free spots are still available.
You can order the book online at Libristo, Amazon etc., or borrow it from libraries such as Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library.
Delia Owens: Where the Crawdads Sing
For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet fishing village. Kya Clark is barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when the popular Chase Andrews is found dead, locals immediately suspect her.
But Kya is not what they say. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life's lessons from the land, learning the real ways of the world from the dishonest signals of fireflies. But while she has the skills to live in solitude forever, the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. Drawn to two young men from town, who are each intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world—until the unthinkable happens.
In Where the Crawdads Sing, Owens juxtaposes an exquisite ode to the natural world against a profound coming of age story and haunting mystery. Thought-provoking, wise, and deeply moving, Owens’s debut novel reminds us that we are forever shaped by the child within us, while also subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.
This book club is for you if you’d like to:
• meet like-minded people and have engaging conversations about the books we read
• improve or maintain your English vocabulary, reading comprehension, and speaking skills
Participation is free for now, but registration is required so we can keep the group small and comfortable (maximum 10 people). If you’d like to join, send me an email to [email protected] and I’ll confirm your registration provided that free spots are still available.
You can order the book online at Libristo, Amazon etc., or borrow it from libraries such as Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library.
Delia Owens: Where the Crawdads Sing
For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet fishing village. Kya Clark is barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when the popular Chase Andrews is found dead, locals immediately suspect her.
But Kya is not what they say. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life's lessons from the land, learning the real ways of the world from the dishonest signals of fireflies. But while she has the skills to live in solitude forever, the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. Drawn to two young men from town, who are each intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world—until the unthinkable happens.
In Where the Crawdads Sing, Owens juxtaposes an exquisite ode to the natural world against a profound coming of age story and haunting mystery. Thought-provoking, wise, and deeply moving, Owens’s debut novel reminds us that we are forever shaped by the child within us, while also subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.
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Where is it happening?
Massolit Books & Café in Budapest, Nagy Diófa utca 32, Budapest 1072, Magyarország, Budapest, Hungary
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