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Always Coming Home is my deep favorite of hers. It's hard to find someone else who has even read it!
Emile, it contains a novel that is interspersed with chapters on material technology. You can just read the parts you want
I think the first time I read it I started out reading everything, and I eventually shifted to just reading the novel, because that was what spoke to me at the time. When I reread it last year, I read the whole thing in order. But you definitely don't have to do it that way!
And yes it seems so unique to me! But then when I started to read Moby Dick I realized....