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   "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. Perhaps, with the
present collection, Lucia Berlin will begin to gain the attention she deserves." -Lydia Davis 
  
  A MANUAL
FOR CLEANING WOMEN compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. 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. 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. 
  
  Praise for A Manual for Cleaning Women 
  In A Manual for Cleaning Women we
witness the emergence of an important American writer, one who was mostly overlooked in her time. Ms. Berlin's stories
make you marvel at the contingencies of our existence. She is the real deal. 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. Lucia
Berlin spins you around, knocks you down and grinds your face into the dirt. You will listen to me if I have to force
you, her stories growl. But why would you make me do that, darlin'? . . . Berlin's stories are full of second chances.
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 
  
  [Lucia Berlin] might be the most interesting
person you've never met . . . 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. 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. And then go
back and read them all again. A. - Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly 
  
  The vivacity, humor, sorrow,
pragmatism and sheer literary star power that fill the 43 stories collected in A Manual For Cleaning Women hit with such
immediacy and vigor that it seems unbelievable that their author, Lucia Berlin, died in 2004, at the age of 68, before
most of us ever knew about her. How a writer with this much appeal slipped under the radar is unfathomable, though
sexism may be involved. Anyway, thank heavens it's over. Anyone who loves the stories of Grace Paley and Lorrie Moore
will find another master of the form here. . . Just go get the book and start reading them for yourself. - Marion Wink,
Newsday 
  
  Berlin's tales of addiction and violence, formally unpredictable and drolly grotesque, defy our
expectations for working-class fiction . . . If you aren't familiar with Berlin, now's the time to get acquainted . . .
A Manual for Cleaning Women brings together 43 of the unconventional, unnerving stories Berlin wrote over the course of
thirty years . . . offer[ing] unusually detailed portraits of working-class lives . . . Allusive and lyrical, her
writing looks more modernist than minimalist . . . [Berlin] didn't generalize or ironize working-class experience; she
instead presented her neighbors in all their compelling specificity . . . What this writing affirms is the beautiful,
broken human body as well as Berlin's rightful place in the canon of American short fiction. - Maggie Doherty, New
Republic
  
   Berlin was underrecognized during her life-she died in 2004 at age 68-but A Manual for Cleaning
Women, a collection of her work edited by Stephen Emerson and with a foreword by Lydia Davis, should correct that. These
43 stories, mostly published from the 1960s to the '80s, illuminate a gritty world where pink-collar workers seek
illegal abortions, endure unwanted caresses from strange men and scavenge for pennies to nurse their addictions . . .
Infused with Berlin's caustic humor and a sense of self-discovery . . . the most touching stories have fun with the
foreboding. - Eliana Dockterman, Time 
  
  Lucia Berlin's electrifying posthumous collection A Manual for
Cleaning Women is a miracle of storytelling economy, showcasing this largely unheard-of writer's genius for streetwise
erudition and sudden, soul-baring epiphanies. - Lisa Shea, Elle 
  
  A writer's writer whose posthumous,
highly semiautobiographical collection will catapult her into a household name. Women who behave badly oscillate
beautifully between funny ha-ha and funny-sad in these perfectly clipped, nuanced stories. - Steph Opitz, Marie Claire

  
  These stories showcase a singular if unsung American voice. - Megan O’Grady, Vogue 
  

 Lucia Berlin has long been overlooked as one of America's best short story writers, and it only takes readers the first
couple of pages to recognize that . . . Reminiscent of Raymond Carver with a dash of survivor's humor, which makes even
the bleakest tales thoroughly enjoyable. - Joseph Errico, Nylon
  
   A collection of wry, riveting stories. -
Marnie Hanel, W 
  
  Begin reading a Berlin short story and you know immediately that you are in the presence
of a unique and searing literary force . . . This revelatory volume now brings her forward to stand beside her peers,
including Grace Paley . . . Berlin is exceptionally attuned to the randomness of life, its pains and pleasures, our
vulnerability and resiliency . . . Berlin unflinchingly strips bare casual and catastrophic cruelty and injustice,
dramatizing, as one narrator puts it, "times of intense technicolor happiness and times that were sordid and
frightening." An essential collection of jazzy, jolting, incisive, wryly funny, and keenly compassionate, virtuoso
tales. - Donna Seaman (starred review), Booklist 
  
  A posthumous collection of stories, almost uniformly
narrated by hard-living women, that makes a case for the author as a major talent . . . The prevailing sensibility of
this book, collecting 43 of the 76 stories Berlin published, is cleareyed and even comic in the face of life hitting the
skids. The title story, for instance, balances wry commentary about housecleaning work ('never make friends with cats')
and deadpan observation ('I clean their coke mirror with Windex') with a sad, thrumming back story . . . Berlin's skill
at controlling the temperature of a story is best displayed in her most emotionally demanding material. In 'Tiger
Bites,' narrated by an El Paso woman who heads to Juarez for an illegal abortion, the pain of her experience and the
pieties of her family at home collide. And 'Mijito,' which deserves to be widely anthologized, exposes how an immigrant
woman's best intentions to care for her ailing son are easily derailed by circumstance and obligation. A testament to a
writer whose explorations of society's rougher corners deserve wider attention. - Kirkus Review (starred) 
  

 Lucia Berlin may just be the best writer you've never heard of . . . Imagine a less urban Grace Paley, with a similar
talent for turning the net of resentments and affections among family members into stories that carry more weight than
their casual, conversational tone might initially suggest . . . Berlin's offbeat humor, get-on-with-it realism, and
ability to layer details that echo across stories and decades give her book a tremendous staying power . . . A Manual
for Cleaning Women goes a long way toward putting Berlin, who died in 2004, back in the public eye. - Publishers Weekly,
starred review
  
   Here's prose to fall hard for, from the first beautifully candid paragraph to the last.
As Berlin's characters confide in the reader and in each other, somehow, through the "ifs" and "buts," laundry and
flower clocks, grace and catastrophe, a mesh is woven that captures life itself. I'm bowled over by her. - Helen Oyeyemi

  
  What a thrilling, welcome discovery this collection is. These are stories to beguile, fascinate and
surprise. You are never sure what will happen next. As soon as I'd finished this book, I had to turn back to the
beginning and start again. - Maggie O’Farrell Berlin's literary model is Chekhov, but there are extra-literary
models too, including the extended jazz solo, with its surges, convolutions, and asides. This is writing of a very high
order. - August Kleinzahler on Where I Live Now, London Review of Books 
  
  This remarkable collection
occasionally put me in mind of Annie Proulx's Accordion Crimes, with its sweep of American origins and places. Berlin is
our Scheherazade, continually surprising her readers with a startling variety of voices, vividly drawn characters, and
settings alive with sight and sound. - Barbara Barnard on Where I Live Now, American Book Review 
  
  The
stories are set in the places Berlin knows best: Chile, Mexico, the Southwest and California, and they have the casual,
straightforward, immediately intimate style that distinguishes her work . . . They are told in an easy conversational
voice and they go from start to finish with a swift and often lyrical economy . . . Berlin's stories capture and
communicate these moments of grace and cast a lovely, lazy light that lasts. She is one of our finest writers and it is
a pleasure to see her represented at the height of her powers. - Molly Giles on So Long, San Francisco Chronicle 						

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