A." -Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly "I have always had faith that the best writers will rise to the top, like cream, sooner or later, and will become exactly as well-known as they should be-their work talked about, quoted, taught, performed, filmed, set to music, anthologized. And then go back and read them all again. Every detox ward, dingy Laundromat, and sunbaked Mexican palapa spills across the page in sentences so bright and fierce and full of wild color that you'll want to turn each one over just to see how she does it. Life (and a long battle with alcohol) prevented her from publishing regularly, but it's all here in 43 autobiographical stories that read like one long, fascinating conversation full of switchbacks and revelations.
You will listen to me if I have to force you, her stories growl." -Ruth Franklin, The New York Times Book Review " might be the most interesting person you've never met. Lucia Berlin spins you around, knocks you down and grinds your face into the dirt. Her stories swoop low over towns and moods and minds." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Some short story writers-Chekhov, Alice Munro, William Trevor-sidle up and tap you gently on the shoulder: Come, they murmur, sit down, listen to what I have to say. Berlin's stories make you marvel at the contingencies of our existence. "In A Manual for Cleaning Women we witness the emergence of an important American writer, one who was mostly overlooked in her time. "Perhaps, with the present collection, Lucia Berlin will begin to gain the attention she deserves." -Lydia Davis
Readers will revel in this remarkable collection from a master of the form and wonder how they'd ever overlooked her in the first place. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the Laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers and bad Christians. One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015Ī Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin.
About the Book A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin.
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