Brady bears some resemblance to the “Marsh Girl” , Kya Clark, in the bestselling novel, “Where the Crawdads Sing”. Although their circumstances are widely different, they both were abandoned as young children. Brady’s parents, although still alive and he still lived with them, emotionally they abandoned him. Kya lived totally on her own, but both Kya and Brady are both highly intelligent and self sufficient. Both are physically attractive without being aware of that, and both had a craving for knowledge. On the other hand, Kya is very stand-offish with people while Brady is comfortable interacting with others, mostly due to his nomadic life with his parents. Although alike in some ways, Kya and Brady differ in that Brady knows how to navigate the outside world while Kya is suspicious and uncertain.