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Charlotte McConaghy’s latest novel, “Wild Dark Shore,” opens with an enigma: A mysterious, half-drowned woman washes ashore.
The stranger’s name is Rowan, and she has arrived on Shearwater, a remote island near Antarctica. The island, which houses an important seed bank, was once teeming with a community of scientists, but now the project is shutting down, the workers have left and the land lies quiet and deserted, everybody gone except for the Salt family, whose members are all lost in their own way. And all are hiding terrible secrets.
They’re not alone. Rowan herself has come to the island with a hidden purpose, putting this small community on a crash course for a long-overdue reckoning.
On this week’s episode, the Book Club host MJ Franklin discusses “Wild Dark Shore” with his colleagues Lauren Christensen and Elisabeth Egan. You can follow along, and add your own comments to the discussion here.
Other books, movies and works mentioned in this discussion:
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“As I Lay Dying,” by William Faulkner
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“The Sound of Music,” directed by Robert Wise
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“From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,” by E. L. Konigsburg
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The “I Survived” book series, by Lauren Tarshis
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“Cast Away,” directed by Robert Zemeckis
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“Little Man Tate,” directed by Jodie Foster
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“Stone Yard Devotional,” by Charlotte Wood
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“Birnam Wood,” by Eleanor Catton
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“Whale Fall,” by Elizabeth O’Connor
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“Clear,” by Carys Davies
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“This Other Eden,” by Paul Harding
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“The Overstory,” by Richard Powers
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“Wild,” by Cheryl Strayed
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