Description
From the bestselling author of Above All Things
and inspired by real events, this powerful novel follows two families
brought together to reckon with what it means to make amends—for
historic wrongs and the wrongs we commit against the ones we love. For
readers of Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things, Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder, Esi Edugyan's Washington Black, Joan Thomas's Five Wives, and Michael Christie's Greenwood.
On
a small island in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu, the Tabés are a
family mourning the death of their son in the aftermath of a devastating
cyclone, while worrying over the looming departure of another.
Desperate to find a way to change their fates, David Tabé places a phone
call halfway around the world to the Stewarts, a family bound to his
own through a fraught connection in the distant past—their ancestors met
on the island two hundred years earlier, with calamitous results.
In
Toronto, the Stewarts are themselves locked in mourning after the
accidental drowning of their youngest son. When Michelle Stewart
receives David’s invitation to participate in a reconciliation ceremony
to put the spirits of their respective ancestors to rest, she accepts in
a desperate effort to save herself and her family. As the ceremony
approaches, the Tabés and the Stewarts will uncover their shared losses
and failings, their fragile hopes for what a better future might hold,
and the wounds that stand in the way of freeing themselves from the
legacy of past betrayals.
Heart-wrenching, thought-provoking, and morally complex, The Sea Between Two Shores
immerses us in the lives of two families connected as much by their
desire for healing as by the actions of their ancestors. It is an
extraordinary meditation on the complications of history, the
possibilities for redemption, and the meaning of the stories we tell
ourselves.
Book is brand-new, never read, as some very slight shelf wear in the two front corners, see photo #2.
