<p>A long, long time from now, in the valleys of what will no longer be called Northern California, might be going to have lived a people called the Kesh.<br><br> But <i>Always Coming Home</i> is not the story of the Kesh. Rather it is the <i>stories</i> of the Kesh - stories, poems, songs, recipes - <i>Always Coming Home</i> is no less than an anthropological account of a community that does not yet exist, a <i>tour de force</i> of imaginative fiction by one of modern literature''s great voices.</p>