EVENING IN PARADISE

The publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlins dazzling collection of short stories, marked the rediscovery of a wri ter whose talent had gone unremarked by many. The incredible reaction to Lucias writing her ability to capture the beauty and ugl iness that coexist in everyday lives, the extraordinary honesty and magnetism with which she draws on her own history to breathe lif e into her characters included calls for her contribution to American literature to be as celebrated as that of Raymond Carver.Ran ging from Te...[Read more]