She says that she was lucky to be born in 1929 instead of 1939 because of J. Her parents were both professionals, her father an anthropology professor and her mother a children's literature author, and they both encouraged her literary aspirations. Le Guin has always enjoyed reading, especially poetry and fiction dealing with other times and places. By casting this novel as the work of an objective scientist, she can also explore the thin line between science fact and science fiction. The Valley of the Kesh is a world in which Le Guin can argue for sexual equality, spiritual renewal, environmental awareness, and utopian ideology. Their culture is technologically nonexistent, but socially and personally advanced far beyond twentieth-century American culture. The Kesh live in a future time in what used to be Northern California. In her novel, Le Guin envisions a post-apocalyptic world, but one created by natural events and human evolution, not nuclear war. Tolkien, Le Guin has produced Always Coming Home, which is most often compared to Tolkien's Silmarillion-a difficult, but brilliant anthropological exploration of Middle Earth.
Critics raved over the beauty of the poetry and the innovative narrative style, but did voice concern over the novel's difficulty. The novel does not have one single story line, but is made of a collection of stories, poems, maps, dictionaries, charts, and songs held together by the three parts of Stone Telling's narrative and Pandora's footnotes and journal entries.
Le Guin uses the strong female characters Stone Telling and Pandora to explore a culture that is different, yet very familiar, to modern American society. Like many of her other novels, Always Coming Home deals with the duality of everything (life, sex, love, faith, fear), the individual's need to belong, and the interconnection of life with the universe. Le Guin answers with two particularly strong women in this complex and difficult novel. Often criticized for having too many male protagonists in her novels, Ursula K. Always Coming Home, the Kafka Award-winning novel published in 1985, marks a departure for one of the world's foremost science fiction and fantasy authors.
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