Always Coming Home

Cover used for a paperback and the box set with cassette audio recording

Always Coming Home is a 1985 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, focusing on the character Stone Telling and her life with the Kesh and her experiences in a nearby patriarchal culture (the Condor people, aka the Dayao); and focusing perhaps even more on the culture of the Kesh.

The book contains a significant amount of cultural lore and essays on Kesh culture, and notes from Pandora. Some editions were published with a cassette audio recording of "Songs and Poetry of the Kesh", performed by Todd Barton; the book contains illustrations by Margaret Chodos. Always Coming Home was adapted for the theater at Naropa University in 1993 by Ruth Davis-Fyer, with music composed and directed by Brian Mac Ian.

Recognition

• Kafka Award

Further reading

• study guide for ACH
• Book discussion group on feministSF mailing list (July. 2001)

Editions

• Box with book and cassette audio recording
  • ISBN 0-06-015456-X (1985 trade paperback)
  • ISBN 0-06-015545-0 (1985 hardcover)
  • ISBN 0-575-03860-8 (1986 hardcover, UK edition)
• Hardcover/paperback editions
  • ISBN 0-553-26280-7 (1986, paperback)
  • ISBN 0-575-03855-1 (1986, hardcover, UK edition)
  • ISBN 0-553-26280-7 (1987, paperback)
  • ISBN 0-586-07383-3 (1988, trade paperback, UK edition)
  • ISBN 5-552-89803-6 (1991, paperback)
  • ISBN 0-00-647595-7 (1993, trade paperback, UK edition)
  • ISBN 0-520-22735-2 (2001, trade paperback)
• 1993: theatrical adaptation