A collection of short stories centered on various contemporary and historical people who live in a small Oregon coastal town. My favorite story in the collection is True Love, which takes the cliche of true love and turns it upside down & sideways. I came to LeGuin through science fiction & fantasy, and don't really read much mainstream or contemporary fiction, and pretty well stay away from anything with too much realism. So while it was interesting and enjoyable to see LeGuin work outside of the genre, the themes explored in Searoad just didn't capture me. ( )