Always Coming Home
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Desc: Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers. More than five years in creation 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. The author makes the inhabitants of the valley as familiar as immediate as wholly human as our own friends or family. Spiraling outward from the dramatic life story of a woman called Stone Telling Le Guin's Always Coming Home interweaves wry wit deep insight and extraordinary compassion into a compelling unity of vision.