Description: Originally published in 1985, and pieced together from many of her tales relating to the same group of people, this is a finely chizzled novel of different form. More than five years in creation it is unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork and music, it immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast.