In 2016, months before his son was born, Scott F. Parker went to the Oregon coast to hold himself accountable for his first thirty-five years, to take stock of his life and what he'd learned so far, to ask what he might have to offer his son. For ten days he walked south keeping a notebook. Being on the Oregon Coast is the product of that journey. The book offers a condensed and symbolic account of Parker's walk as his thoughts roam over...