What ethnicity is Kya from Where the Crawdads Sing?

Q: Why is Where the Crawdads Sing so controversial?

The book is mired in controversy What most of Crawdads fans dont know,” Miller wrote, is that Delia and Mark Owens have been advised never to return to one of the African nations where they once lived and worked, Zambia, because they are wanted for questioning in a murder that took place there decades ago.”

This sweeping adaptation of Delia Owens’s bestselling debut novel of the same name will centre on the captivating star of Normal People. Ahead of its arrival in cinemas, here’s everything you need to know.

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The headlines:
Who is in the cast of Where the Crawdads Sing?
When will Where the Crawdads Sing be released?
What is the plot of Where the Crawdads Sing in a nutshell?
Is there a trailer for Where the Crawdads Sing?
The details:
Is Kya in crawdads black or white?
What race are the characters in Where the Crawdads Sing?
Where is Kya Clark from?
Why is Where the Crawdads Sing so controversial?

The headlines:

Who is in the cast of Where the Crawdads Sing?

Daisy Edgar-Jones will take the lead in Where the Crawdads Sing alongside Harris Dickinson and Taylor John Smith.

When will Where the Crawdads Sing be released?

Where the Crawdads Sing is due to arrive in theaters on July 15.

What is the plot of Where the Crawdads Sing in a nutshell?

In Where the Crawdads Sing, a young girl who grows up in a North Carolina marsh becomes a suspect in the murder of a man who once pursued her.

Is there a trailer for Where the Crawdads Sing?

Yes, there are two and they both feature lush landscapes, tense courtroom scenes, and a soaring original song penned by Taylor Swift. Watch them in full below.

The details:

It’s a twisty thriller that doubles as a coming-of-age saga

Based on Delia Owens’s critically-lauded page turner, Where the Crawdads Sing centers on Kya, the endlessly resourceful resident of a North Carolina marsh. We meet her as a child in the early ’50s, as she is abandoned by her parents and older siblings, and learns to survive on her own. She is taught to read and write by her friend Tate Walker and falls for him, but is left behind once again when he goes to college. Enter Chase Andrews, a quarterback who draws Kya into a tryst with promises of marriage that never materialize. After she ends their relationship, he attacks her and she narrowly escapes. Then, while she’s away, Chase is found dead and Kya is engulfed in a murder trial—and the evidence against her seems insurmountable.

Photo: Michele K. Short

The cast is a mix of rising stars and fresh faces

Daisy Edgar-Jones, who dazzled audiences as the sensitive Marianne in Normal People and recently earned rave reviews at Sundance with her delicious new revenge thriller Fresh, will star as the resilient Kya. Indie darling Harris Dickinson, who won hearts in Beach Rats and can currently be seen in The Souvenir: Part II, is Chase, while Taylor John Smith, best known for his role as a distressed murder suspect in HBO’s Sharp Objects, is Tate. There’s also Garret Dillahunt and Ahna O’Reilly as Kya’s emotionally distant parents; Sterling Macer Jr. and Michael Hyatt as Jumpin and Mabel, a couple who come to Kya’s aid; and Jojo Regina and Luke David Blumm as the younger iterations of Kya and Tate.

Photo: Michele K. Short

There’s star power behind the camera, too

Reese Witherspoon, who selected Owens’s novel for her book club back in September 2018, is among the film’s producers. Olivia Newman (First Match) is in the director’s chair, and Lucy Alibar, who was nominated for an Oscar for co-writing Beasts of the Southern Wild—another story of a child raised in an isolated, otherworldly landscape—has penned the script.

The trailer is lush and atmospheric—and features an original song by Taylor Swift

Released on March 22, the first trailer for Where the Crawdads Sing opens with a shot of Daisy Edgar-Jones as Kya at her trial, before zipping back to her bucolic childhood spent painting with her mother. After being abandoned, we see her being bullied at school, foraging in the marshes, fishing, sketching birds, and opening up to Taylor John Smith’s Tate. When he, too, departs, she starts getting closer to Harris Dickinson’s Chase, until the camera cuts to the latter’s body as it lies motionless on the bank of a river. She is then hunted by the police, captured, and berated by the witnesses at her trial. As we watch her dashing through the woods, we hear snatches of the brooding ballad “Carolina,” written for the film and performed by none other than Taylor Swift.

Then, on June 24, Swift dropped the complete version of “Carolina” on YouTube. It’s a mournful, intensely atmospheric song with shades of Evermore, that seems to have been written from Kya’s perspective, as she roams the lonesome marshes, despairs over those who have left her, and hints at the many secrets she’s keeping, which she can only share with the creeks, forests, and beaches of North Carolina.

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“About a year and a half ago I wrote a song about an incredible story, the story of a girl who always lived on the outside, looking in, figuratively and literally,” Swift wrote on Instagram. “The juxtaposition of her loneliness and independence. Her longing and her stillness. Her curiosity and fear, all tangled up. Her persisting gentleness… and the world’s betrayal of it. I wrote this one alone in the middle of the night and then Aaron Dessner and I meticulously worked on a sound that we felt would be authentic to the moment in time when this story takes place.” (Notably, the song was recorded in just one take, only using instruments that existed in the early ’50s, where the first part of the story plays out.) Could the 11-time Grammy winner snag the best original song Oscar come 2023? It’s certainly possible.

It could be one of the biggest hits of the summer

Filming began in April 2021 and wrapped in July, with the drama set to land in theaters on July 15. If you have yet to read the gripping source material, which has already sold over 10 million copies globally, the time to order it is now.

Is Kya in crawdads black or white?

Is Kya black or white in Where the Crawdads Sing? While it is sometimes assumed by Where the Crawdads Sing readers that Kya is black, we know that Kya and her family are actually white because the character refers to herself as "white trash".

What race are the characters in Where the Crawdads Sing?

Portrayals of black people Much like The Help, another best-selling novel about midcentury life in the South centered on a young white woman, Where the Crawdads Sing has been criticized for making its Black characters into stereotypes.

Where is Kya Clark from?

“Where the Crawdads Sing” is centered around a girl named Kya Clark, who was born and raised in the marshes of North Carolina.

Why is Where the Crawdads Sing so controversial?

The book is mired in controversy “What most of Crawdads' fans don't know,” Miller wrote, “is that Delia and Mark Owens have been advised never to return to one of the African nations where they once lived and worked, Zambia, because they are wanted for questioning in a murder that took place there decades ago.”