num_pages: 163
description: This dazzling debut collection from a Seattle native features stories evocatively set along the Northwest coast, stories of quiet but astonishing lives. Here are ferry workers, carpenters, park rangers, living alongside crab factories, cranberry bogs, the misty ocean. Here are people puzzled by the processes of growing up, leaving home, parenting, aging. Here are people who realize there are second chances, that from illness can come hope, that from family can come a greater sense of self. Psychologically complex and glowing with warmth, these rich stories recall Tobias Wolff and Raymond Carver. A MARINER PAPERBACK ORIGINAL.
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