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by giraffe_lady
805 days ago
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I love that book too, maybe my favorite by her, but have found it to be a polarizing recommendation. It's a very unusual format (the novel is interspersed with creation myths, plays, songs, recipes, etc of the people of the setting) and some people just immediately dislike it. I also think in some important ways it is not as narratively strong as her best works, a necessary tradeoff for what it does accomplish. It's very interesting to consider her being raised by an anthropologist, and her exceptional childhood exposure to Ishi, whom her father had known and her mother and brother separately wrote books about. A thread running through all of her books is a deep human interest in the ways of peoples, and how their stories about themselves shape who they are and their relationship to a changing world. Always Coming Home is the book of her that is most, almost exclusively, focused on these concerns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishi_in_Two_Worlds |
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