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. “ might be the most interesting person you've never met. Now readers have another chance to confront them: bits of life, chewed up and spat out like a wad of tobacco, bitter and rich.” ―Ruth Franklin, The New York Times Book Review Berlin's stories are full of second chances. But why would you make me do that, darlin'?. You will listen to me if I have to force you, her stories growl. Lucia Berlin spins you around, knocks you down and grinds your face into the dirt. “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. Her stories swoop low over towns and moods and minds.” ―Dwight Garner, The New York Times 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.
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