A review by maddierice
Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin

3.25

I have such admiration for ukl and her work is so dear to my heart, but reading this book I found myself again disappointed by the gender essentialism that tends to worm its way into her works of fiction, inevitably resulting- even where the cultures she has INVENTED are said to “practice homosexuality”-  in an overwhelmingly heteronormative narrative.  She (as well as this book) has other blind spots, but for me this is the one that’s most frustrating to find  again and again in an author who otherwise had much  that was radical to offer us. Maybe I’m just asking too much from a book from the 80’s, idk

(I still think this book is extremely cool and worth reading)