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''Evocative . . . poignant . . . acute and funny'' Observer''The Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin Continues Apace'' New York TimesBest known for her short fiction, it was upon publication of A Ma ...

''Evocative . . . poignant . . . acute and funny'' Observer''The Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin Continues Apace'' New York TimesBest known for her short fiction, it was upon publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women in 2015 that Lucia Berlin’s status as a great American writer was widely celebrated. To populate her stories – the places, relationships, the sentiments – Berlin often drew on her own rich, itinerant life. Before Berlin died, she was working on a book of previously unpublished autobiographical sketches called Welcome Home. The work consisted of more than twenty chapters that st