"A gift to the reader, a gentle and wise book that is her most personal, her most daring, probably her best yet." – St. Louis Post Dispatch
"Some stories are timeless, and can be located anywhere on earth, without the content being altered. Ursula Le Guin's enthralling new book is one of those." – Minneapolis Star and Tribune
"One of Le Guin's most fascinating and underrated works: a sprawling exploration of a fictional people known as the Kesh, who lived in northern California hundreds of years in the future. . . . A novel, a scrapbook and an imaginary anthropological study in one . . . crammed with maps, stories, songs, recipes, poetry, charts and language guides." – The Guardian
"May be Le Guin's finest achievement."
– Newsday
"With high invention and deep intelligence, Always Coming Home presents, in alternating narratives, poems and expositions, Ursula K. Le Guin's most consistently lyric and luminous book in a career adorned with some of the most precise and passionate prose in the service of a major imaginative vision." – New York Times
"The effect it has on the reader is hypnotic. . . . Le Guin has chosen a most original way to reveal this imagined land." – People
"An appealing book as well as a masterly one. . . . The future world she has created here is awesomely complex." – Newsweek
"This may be her masterpiece, a collage of documents and artifacts tracing the history of a future agrarian society that has grown out of the ruins of the industrialized past."
– Alta: Journal of Alta California
"One of [Le Guin's] most radical novels. . . . Always Coming Home is a study in what a complete and utter rejection of capitalism and patriarchy might look like–for society and for the art of storytelling." – The Millions
"Always Coming Home is an act of discovery. . . . Everything Le Guin does is interesting, believable, and exquisitely detailed." – Los Angeles Herald Examiner
"Envisioning a possible future (and attacking present folly), Le Guin reinvents a "primitive" past. . . . Dancing their oneness with nature, valuing cooperation over competition, the Kesh survive contact with the hieratic, war-making, death-dealing Condors, who are a lot like us. If it's hard to believe in a people who use computers and electricity but plow with oxen and see wealth as giving, that's part of the point." – Library Journal
