In her book, Sharon Dunn describes Bound Brook Island’s special qualities—only two roads—of sand, no stores, no cell service, five antique houses, its nameless beach, and it is quiet. Sharon looks at the unusual topography, the geologic forces that created it, the early habitation by native peoples, settlement by Europeans, and the denuding of landscape. Included are stories of several inhabitants of shore whaling and saltworks, and the slow depopulation of the Island from 26 families to none. Sharon looks at the 20th and 21st centuries on the island, with summer people, the incorporation into a National Seashore, and lastly the breach overwash at Duck Harbor Beach. The book abounds in maps and photographs, old and new, and also has some of Sharon’s Bound Brook Island poems. She more accurately categorizes this work as a book of creative nonfiction.

Sharon Dunn is a poet and nonfiction writer. She has published a memoir, Under a Dark Eye: A Family Story, as well as two books of poems, Refugees in the Garden and My Brother & I. She was editor of the literary journal AGNI for ten years.

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