How often does a person wanted for questioning in the murder of a man in Zambia write runaway best sellers seemingly based on that murder and barely anyone bats an eyelash?
Delia Owens Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/FilmMagic via Getty Images Delia Owens, the writer of the best-selling novel Where the Crawdads Sing, is still a person of interest in the 1995 death of a poacher in the North Luangwa region of Zambia.
The Owenses were no strangers to animal research or human threats to wildlife — in the 1970s, the two traveled to Botswana to study wildlife until the government kicked them out for being too nosy about the fencing around a stretch of the Kalahari to herd cattle, changing the wildebeest’s migrating patterns and causing mass dehydration. . They later settled in Zambia, where, over time, they raised an armed militia to combat poachers who functioned outside the Zambian government.
Where the Crawdads Sing itself is rife with questionable portrayals of Black people — a 2019 Slate report about the book notes that the Black characters speak in a sort of exaggerated minstrel dialect, saying things like “Ya know ya can tell me. In fact, we gwine stand right here tills ya tell me.” Somehow, though, the book and the movie are still being promoted by influential people such as Witherspoon. That’s wild.
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