Where the Crawdads Sing is a best-selling book that will soon be made into a movie. The author, Delia Owens, is facing backlash for a murder she may have been involved in 30 years ago while living in Zambia. The best-selling book Where the Crawdads Sing sold more than a million copies in 2019. The movie version is set to come out in July. Reese Witherspoon is producing it, and Taylor Swift wrote a song for it.
Even though the book has gotten a lot of good reviews, the controversy surrounding its author, Delia Owens, has recently come up again. Delia Owens is a writer and environmental activist who spent 22 years in Africa. Owens and her husband should not go back to Zambia, though, because they are wanted for questioning a murder that happened 30 years ago.
Owens and her husband Mark moved to Zambia in 1986, where elephant poaching was said to make them “sick.” Mark Owens joined a group that worked to stop poaching and taught scouts how to shoot poachers. In 1995, the show Turning Point on ABC was making a segment about their activism, and they caught the killing of a suspected poacher on camera.
Witnesses say that Mark Owens shot and killed the poacher first. Even though poaching is morally wrong, there are questions about whether it is right to kill a poacher. There is also no proof that the victim was a poacher. He was by himself, and there were no clear signs that he had killed any animals. When ABC showed the segment, they didn’t put the murder in its proper place.
Mark Owens is thought to have helped his son hide the body in a lake, where it was never found.
Even though Delia Owens didn’t kill anyone, she stood by her husband and stepson and ran away with them. People think that Where the Crawdads Sing is about the events of 1995, which got her even more attention because it seems like she’s telling the story from a different point of view. She then made millions of dollars off of it.
Delia Owens and her publisher have managed to avoid and hide that part of her life, but it looks like some things can’t stay hidden forever. Where the Crawdads Sing was made into a movie, but neither Reese Witherspoon, who produced the movie, nor Taylor Swift, who wrote a song for the movie, has said anything about what has recently come to light.
FAQ:
Why is the Where the Crawdads Sing author problematic?
Taylor Swift is getting criticism for being in the movie “Where the Crawdads Sing,” which is based on one of her songs. Here is all the information you need. Delia Owens and her ex-husband Mark are wanted for questioning about the death of an unnamed man in Zambia. They have also called for population control in Africa in the past.
In Where the Crawdads Sing, is Kya black or white?
Exactly what is this? Kya is neither black nor an American Indian. At one point, Kya calls herself “white trash,” so I think it’s safe to say that she and her family are white.
