"You've heard of Earthsea, The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness... but Always Coming Home is different.
Yes, it's a speculative work, but it's rooted in its sense of place: you will recognize the wilds of a future Northern California.
Yes, there's a linear narrative, as Stone Telling struggles with an identity caught between two cultures, but it comes in pieces: the work is knitted together with the plays, poems, and myths of one of these people.
It is a work of anthropological possibility.
It is a strange and beautiful act of world building.
It changed the way I exist within the world.
Thank you, Ms. Le Guin; your words were food."
Publisher University of California Press
Publication Date 2001-02-05
Section Fiction / All Staff Suggestions / Fiction Suggestions / Story B.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780520227354
Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in the making, it is a novel unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast.
