Le Guin, Ursula K.: Hernes

Winter texts, paperback Publication Date: March 1, 2023 Publisher Marketing: A novella of foam and rain. This story is a literary masterpiece. Long overlooked as a sidenote of Le Guin's famed career, this deep contemplation of place, being, and naming is set on the Oregon Coast, weaving together the perspectives of 4 generations of women. It is hard to overstate the value of this work. Both in its technical skill and in its broad, multifaceted view of human experience. It is, to my mind, Le Guin's deepest exploration of Taoism. It discards any direct reference to the ideology and instead invests its effort into the lived experience of the central questions of the tradition. Finding voice in the liminal conditions of the coast, the human mind, and the question of naming. I retyped the whole story from a library edition of "Searoad" while down in Neskowin, OR. The winter weather clearing out tourists. The long beach extended out. Waves never ceasing their crashing noise causing my window