Where the Crickets Sing (original Novel of "the Girl in the Swamp")
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One by one, family members left. From the age of ten, she lived alone in the desolate wetlands of the North Carolina coast, driving a small boat and making a living by hunting and collecting wild animals to sell to people at the dock. She only went to school for one day and was what the town residents called a "wetland girl", a wild girl outside of civilized society. When the town's most popular playboy is found dead in a wetland, suspicion is immediately cast on her. A natural wetland biologist, she draws life lessons from the land and learns from the dishonest signals of fireflies how the world really works. At the age of longing for touch and love, she was attracted by two young people from a small town, and she opened her heart to a new life... A few years later, she became a local legend and the business card of the small town tourism industry. But this book is not about an inspirational story of a girl overcoming obstacles and heading towards the bright future. The desolate wetland raised the girl and shaped her. Her choices about love and life follow the call of the wilderness rather than the teachings of civilized society.
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Wow! Hehehe... I also have movie tickets. If I don't get them, it's not safe in large crowds😷
The heroine was abandoned by her family when she was 6 years old. She lived and grew up alone in a saline-alkali wetland near the sea in North Carolina, USA. For years, strange rumors about the "Wetland Girl" have haunted the local Barkley Bay, causing the smart and strong Kya to be ostracized by the local residents. However, two young men in the town, Tate and Chase, successively walked into Kya's life and heart. When Chase's body is found in a wetland, Kia is also considered a murder suspect. However, after the trial and plea of the case, Kia was eventually found not guilty. Later, Kia and Tate got back together and lived happily until they died of old age. Finally, when Tate was sorting out Kia's belongings, he discovered that the murderer was actually Kia. "Being alone, she also felt scared, but now it's turned into excitement and anticipation." "As long as life continues, no behavior is completely unacceptable." "Touching someone means giving a part of yourself that can never be taken back." "There is no need to judge right or wrong here. It is not evil, it is just the instinctive impulse of life, even if it is at the expense of some participants. From a biological point of view, right and wrong are just the same color in different lights."
Ah... I'm so happy (●°u°●) " I won the ornaments and movie tickets in the lottery!
Upon seeing this name: The girl deep in the swamp👧 Immediately immersive feeling So amazing→_→ Looking forward to (o^^o) the movie🎥hehe
A poor reader
A friend recommended it and said this story is beautiful and the girl is very brave. No one, I am the first one, I want to go see it.
So stubborn
At the age of six or seven, a little girl must learn to be independent, like a weed. Very powerful
Get movie tickets
Is there anyone else who has drawn it? Let's show it off.
Recommended, first of all the content didn't attract me Secondly, maybe because it is a foreign work, some of the translated content seems strange to me.
The growth and love story of a girl living alone in the swamp (tentatively) (Contains a lot of spoilers)
I have to say that this is my first time reading some publications on QQ. The whole book is interspersed with the protagonist's childhood and youth. The little girl Kya witnessed her mother abandoning many things and resolutely running away, and then her brothers and sisters. Kia lives in the swamp, relying on the few warm memories left with her mother and brothers to gain spiritual support. She followed the wetland lifestyle and survival principles in the swamp, being as nervous as an animal and wary of everything outside. Maybe it was because I had read too many suspense works, and when I turned to the first chapter of my youth - when I saw the popular children in the market growing up, and finding their long-dead friends in the watchtower, I was sure that the heroine was related to this, and I was waiting for the author to reveal the contradiction between them and what method the protagonist used. The truth is revealed at the end. He was found not guilty in the trial, which is like the cliche ending of the male protagonist getting married... Although the playboy usually appears as a "hunter", he was eventually hunted and killed by Kia, the "prey"; his mother has passed away, and there is no need to expect her to come back; the shadow of violence left by his father has been eliminated. The full description of the natural scenery of the wetland made many readers lament that they "can't seem to stand it anymore." The writing is soothing and poetic, and the characters are stable rather than distinctive. The things they want to express are many and messy: prejudice, malice, crime, love... I think it would be a selling point if adapted into a film and television work. Unfortunately, the plot is not very attractive to me. To watch it is also to study the art of light and shadow. The translation is pretty good, retaining the beauty without a particularly strong sense of weirdness (it is a foreign novel after all). The text is more literary, but easy to read ≠ good book
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Wow! Hehehe... I also have movie tickets. If I don't get them, it's not safe in large crowds😷
The heroine was abandoned by her family when she was 6 years old. She lived and grew up alone in a saline-alkali wetland near the sea in North Carolina, USA. For years, strange rumors about the "Wetland Girl" have haunted the local Barkley Bay, causing the smart and strong Kya to be ostracized by the local residents. However, two young men in the town, Tate and Chase, successively walked into Kya's life and heart. When Chase's body is found in a wetland, Kia is also considered a murder suspect. However, after the trial and plea of the case, Kia was eventually found not guilty. Later, Kia and Tate got back together and lived happily until they died of old age. Finally, when Tate was sorting out Kia's belongings, he discovered that the murderer was actually Kia. "Being alone, she also felt scared, but now it's turned into excitement and anticipation." "As long as life continues, no behavior is completely unacceptable." "Touching someone means giving a part of yourself that can never be taken back." "There is no need to judge right or wrong here. It is not evil, it is just the instinctive impulse of life, even if it is at the expense of some participants. From a biological point of view, right and wrong are just the same color in different lights."
Ah... I'm so happy (●°u°●) " I won the ornaments and movie tickets in the lottery!
Upon seeing this name: The girl deep in the swamp👧 Immediately immersive feeling So amazing→_→ Looking forward to (o^^o) the movie🎥hehe
A poor reader
A friend recommended it and said this story is beautiful and the girl is very brave. No one, I am the first one, I want to go see it.
So stubborn
At the age of six or seven, a little girl must learn to be independent, like a weed. Very powerful
Get movie tickets
Is there anyone else who has drawn it? Let's show it off.
Recommended, first of all the content didn't attract me Secondly, maybe because it is a foreign work, some of the translated content seems strange to me.
The growth and love story of a girl living alone in the swamp (tentatively) (Contains a lot of spoilers)
I have to say that this is my first time reading some publications on QQ. The whole book is interspersed with the protagonist's childhood and youth. The little girl Kya witnessed her mother abandoning many things and resolutely running away, and then her brothers and sisters. Kia lives in the swamp, relying on the few warm memories left with her mother and brothers to gain spiritual support. She followed the wetland lifestyle and survival principles in the swamp, being as nervous as an animal and wary of everything outside. Maybe it was because I had read too many suspense works, and when I turned to the first chapter of my youth - when I saw the popular children in the market growing up, and finding their long-dead friends in the watchtower, I was sure that the heroine was related to this, and I was waiting for the author to reveal the contradiction between them and what method the protagonist used. The truth is revealed at the end. He was found not guilty in the trial, which is like the cliche ending of the male protagonist getting married... Although the playboy usually appears as a "hunter", he was eventually hunted and killed by Kia, the "prey"; his mother has passed away, and there is no need to expect her to come back; the shadow of violence left by his father has been eliminated. The full description of the natural scenery of the wetland made many readers lament that they "can't seem to stand it anymore." The writing is soothing and poetic, and the characters are stable rather than distinctive. The things they want to express are many and messy: prejudice, malice, crime, love... I think it would be a selling point if adapted into a film and television work. Unfortunately, the plot is not very attractive to me. To watch it is also to study the art of light and shadow. The translation is pretty good, retaining the beauty without a particularly strong sense of weirdness (it is a foreign novel after all). The text is more literary, but easy to read ≠ good book
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