The Sea Between Two Shores

From the bestselling author of Above All Things and inspired byreal events, this powerful novel follows two families brought together to reckon with what it means to make amendsfor historic wrongs and the wrongs we commit against the ones we love.In the early 1800s, a Nova Scotian couple arrives on the shores of an island in the Oceanic archipelago of what is now known as Vanuatu to convert the local Indigenous peoples. The arrival of these strangers leads to exchange and friction, cooperation and violence, culminating in a catastrophe the missionaries unwittingly unleash on the island. Two hundred years later in Toronto, the Stewarts are a family locked in mourning after the accidental drowning of their youngest son.When Michelle Stewart receives an unexpected call from the island of Iparei inviting the Stewarts to participatein a reconciliation ceremony for their respective ancestors, she accepts in a...