Always Coming Home | Stone Telling

Stone Telling is the only single character whose life becomes a major part of the narrative in Always Coming Home. She is the daughter of a Blue Clay woman and a Condor man and spent much of her early life feeling like a half-person since her father was not of the Kesh. Her story, told in three parts, holds the narrative of the Kesh together and gives a voice and a face to the "cold" scientific facts presented in the rest of the novel. Home and family are not always comfortable places for Stone Telling and she dreams of a different kind of life. She feels unwanted and...

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