Where The Crawdads Sing boils up a tasty beach-read gumbo
The task for director Olivia Newman and writer Lucy Alibar with their adaptation of Where The Crawdads Sing, like with many book club darlings that came before it, was to recreate as faithfully as possible Delia Owens’ 2018 novel—regardless of what improvements or deviations might be warranted for a different medium.…