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{{Short description|1985 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin}}
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{{Infobox book
| name          = Always Coming Home
| title_orig    = 
| translator    = 
| image         = Achnavalleyorig.jpg
| caption = First edition cover
| author        = [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]
| illustrator   = Margaret Chodos
| cover_artist  = 
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| series        = 
| genre         = [[Science fiction]]
| published     = 1985 ([[Harper and Row]])
| media_type    = Print ([[hardcover]] and [[paperback]])
| pages         = 523
| isbn          = 0-06-015545-0
| dewey= 813/.54 19
| congress= PS3562.E42 A79 1985
| oclc          = 11728313
| preceded_by   = 
| followed_by   = 
}}
[[File:Californie submergee simulation.svg|thumb|Submerged California, the setting of the book. The Old Straight Road is the [[California State Route 29|SR 29]], the Grandmother Mountain (Ama Kulkun) is [[Mount Saint Helena]].]]
[[File:Double spirale.svg|thumb|''Heyiya-if'', a holy symbol for the Kesh.]]
[[File:Kesh aiha LeGuin Always Coming Home alphabet.svg|thumb|The Kesh ''aiha'' alphabet]]

'''''Always Coming Home''''' is a 1985 science fiction novel by American writer [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]. It is in parts narrative, pseudo-textbook and pseudo-anthropologist's record. It describes the life and society of the Kesh people, a cultural group who live in the distant future long after modern society has collapsed.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bernardo |first1=Susan M. |last2=Murphy |first2=Graham J. |year=2006 |title=Ursula K. Le Guin: A Critical Companion |pages=19–20 |location=Westport, CT |publisher=Greenwood Press}}</ref> It is presented by Pandora, who seems to be an [[anthropology|anthropologist]] or [[ethnography|ethnographer]] from the readers' contemporary culture, or a culture very close to it. Pandora describes the book as a protest against contemporary civilization, which the Kesh call "''the Sickness of Man''".