A long, long time from now, in the valleys of what will no longer be called Northern California, might be going to have lived a people called the Kesh. But this book is not the story of the Kesh. Rather it is the stories of the Kesh stories, poems, songs, recipes making it no less than an anthropological account of a community that does not yet exist: a tour de force of imaginative fiction by one of modern literature's great voices.