Where the Crawdads Sing Marriage but the defeated keep competing

but the defeated keep competing against each other until the last candidate standing fails the exam

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Where the Crawdads Sing Marriage but the defeated keep competingFor years, rumors of the Marsh Girl haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet fishing village. Kya Clark is barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when the popular Chase Andrews is found dead, locals immediately suspect her. But Kya is not what they say. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life's lessons from the land, learning the real ways of the world from the dishonest signals of fireflies. But while she has the