#but I'm only halfway through the book so I don't want give a verdict yet

[just2bubbly]

I'm reading the book 'Where The Crawdads Sing' after much persuasion from people around. And well it's a great book so far into this and first it's helped me get out of the reader's block. But onto the book—

It has such a enticing start- nothing more appealing than murder to get a reader hooked on your book 🤌✨ but other than that it's sad over all: how Ma leaves Kya in her 'fake alligator heels' is just gut wrenching and the six year old innocent girl hoping that she would come back for how can a mother abandon her offspring? And how that's not the end of sadness and loneliness in her life- her siblings leave her and I don't feel much for the elder ones with whom she had no connect but Jodie who told her that 'she would understand why he did this when she is older' and I fail to understand why leaving a child with an abusive parent is anything understandable.

What is more depressing that Kya continues to hope that Ma will come back and she turns 7 and there is no one to wish her. She doing makeshift with her father to just have sort of connection with human beings is so unimaginable. Her dad being so cruel to her that he has no regards for her well being speaks volumes. Only for him to show some speck of humanity by taking her fishing, to a diner and just smiling. It's going to make me cry- the short glimpses of childhood are so heartbreaking to read. Only for me to feel sadder when he doesn't return- perhaps lost to death. Now Kya is forced to grow up and look past her creative needs to focus on how to bring food on the table is disturbing