Livre d'Or

My take on Always Coming Home was that it struck me as LeGuin attempting to manifest an example of the things she has said about thinking that day-to-day life and "women's work" making for just as good stories as adventure and so forth, and not actually making something out of it that has the story nature.

I believe it's entirely possible to tell such stories and have them work as stories, Maureen McHugh's China Mountain Zhang positively leaps to mind. I'm just not sure that LeGuin's way of doing it is ever going to read to me like a story, rather than, oh, a role-playing supplement. [ No disrespect meant to role-playing supplements, but they're not what I'm looking for as novels. ]