Best Kept Secrets: The Fiction of Lucia Berlin | SF

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Join City Lights Books and the Book Club of California to celebrate the publication of A Manual for Cleaning Woman: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin. Berlin’s book has been getting well deserved attention from the likes of the New York Times Book Review and the New Yorker.

Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) was first published when she was twenty-four in The Atlantic Monthly and in Saul Bellow and Keith Botsford’s journal The Noble Savage. Berlin worked brilliantly but sporadically throughout the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s. Her stories are culled from her early childhood in various Western mining towns; her glamorous teenage years in Santiago, Chile; three failed marriages; a lifelong problem with alcoholism; her years spent in Berkeley, New Mexico, and Mexico City; and the various jobs she later held to support her writing and her four sons, including as a high-school teacher, a switchboard operator, a physician’s assistant, and a cleaning woman.

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