Introduction

An ENTHRALLING new novel from the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves

"A WILDLY TALENTED writer." ?Emily St. John Mandel

A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.

Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore.

Isolation has taken its toll on the Salts, but as they nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, it begins to feel like she might just be what they need. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting herself, starts imagining a future where she could belong to someone again.

But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, they all must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it’s too late—and if they can finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together.

A novel of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears.

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Discussion Questions

From the publisher:

1. The novel’s epilogue reads: “There is a land of the living and a land of the dead / and the bridge is love, / the only survival, the only meaning.” How do you interpret that line? How does it reverberate throughout the novel?

2. The narration rotates around the perspectives of the main characters. Discuss the different styles and formats those perspectives take, as well as the balance between them. Why do you think the author made those narrative choice? Was there a character you were especially drawn to or moved by, and why?

3. How do you think the isolation of Shearwater affects the Salts? What are the pros and cons of living on the island, in your opinion?

4. What do you think life will be like for the Salts, after Shearwater? How were their lives changed by knowing Rowan?

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