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Delia Owens' bestselling novel "Where the Crawdads Sing" seems to draw from her own involvement in the 1995 murder of an alleged poacher in Zambia. latimes.com/entertainment-…
Owens’ fictional #WhereTheCrawdadsSing, which has been adapted into a film produced by Reese Witherspoon, follows an outcast young woman on trial for murder in the 1960s.

But it also sheds some light on an unrelated episode from the author’s own life. latimes.com/entertainment-…
Owens has a tumultuous history as a conservationist in Zambia, where she is currently wanted for questioning in a 1995 murder. latimes.com/entertainment-…
It’s all resurfaced in a recent article in the Atlantic by Jeffrey Goldberg. In 2010, Goldberg published an exposé revealing that Owens, her now-ex-husband and his son were suspected of being involved in the killing of an alleged poacher. latimes.com/entertainment-…
What does all this have to do with Reese Witherspoon’s new movie, apart from cutting into its marketing plan? For one thing, there are the book’s blind spots when it comes to race — including some cringe-worthy dialect spoken by a Black man. latimes.com/entertainment-…
His characterization and speech share a lot with Owens’ depictions in earlier books of some African people as wide-eyed and subliterate. latimes.com/entertainment-…
The critic Laura Miller marked these parallels in a 2019 essay referencing Goldberg’s reporting, noting that one of Goldberg’s sources had summarized the Owenses’ attitude toward Africa as: “Nice continent. Pity about the Africans.” latimes.com/entertainment-…
Miller also points to greater thematic similarities. The Kya of “Crawdads” communes with nature and is alienated from humanity; if she committed murder, it was only because she was driven to it by an animalistic survival drive. latimes.com/entertainment-…
Learn more about the "Where the Crawdads Sing" author. latimes.com/entertainment-…

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