“In Peter Rock’s haunting and eerie eleventh novel, young Ari narrates a story of finding and making family after everything has gone wrong. Or have things gone wrong? Rock’s glorious evocation of the natural world yearns for a time before, or in this case, after modern civilization—here, wreck-diving cormorants and trees responding to the north-western breezes serve as a Greek chorus for a world slaked of human intervention. Lyrical and poignant, Makeshift proves a powerful antidote to the modern world by tracing the landscape’s roots to the Inuit peoples of the Pacific Northwest. This must-read novel lures the reader in, not unlike the coastal wrecks that line Makeshift Island.” —Adam Johnson author of The Wayfinder: A Novel

“Peter Rock is one of my favorite writers and I loved reading Makeshift, his extraordinary new novel. At once suspenseful and revelatory, Makeshift travels alongside three sisters, the children of parents who led them from the "before world" to an island sanctuary. Now they must navigate their collapsing reality, while carrying a horizon between them. It's a gorgeously written, terrifying, and tender foray into the heart of what it means to be in relationship to one another, and to our world which is not over, which is still home. A book for our time and for our species, one that maps our purgatorial stretch of coastline where we seem to be “somewhere between lost and finding our way." – Karen Russell author of The Antidote