num_pages: 180
description: Michael Byers’s award-winning collection The Coast of Good Intentions tells graceful tales of achingly unresolved lives on the Pacific Northwest coast. Byers captures the lives of ferry workers, carpenters, park rangers, and adolescents leaving home, against a backdrop of crab factories, cranberry bogs, the fog-shrouded shore, and the Seattle skyline. A poignant debut collection, these stories are “richly peopled with compelling characters whose wisdom and experiences span the generations” (San Jose Mercury News).
language: English
title: The Coast of Good Intentions
titlecomplete: The Coast of Good Intentions
genres: Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 209
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
publisher: Mariner Books