![]() If you’ve never read a Berlin story, you need to add her to your reading list. Evening in Paradise is an essential piece of Berlin's oeuvre, a jewel-box follow-up for new and old fans. In carefully wrought and deeply affecting stories often drawn from her own unusual life, Lucia Berlin displays lives thrown out of balance by addiction, poverty, cultural displacement, and simple, powerful human urges-for love, belonging, and comfort. From Texas to Chile, Mexico to New York City, Berlin finds beauty in the darkest places and darkness in the seemingly pristine. Evening in Paradise is a careful selection from Berlin's remaining stories-twenty-two gems that showcase the gritty glamour that made readers fall in love with her. The book's author, Lucia Berlin, earned comparisons to Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Alice Munro, and Anton Chekhov. It was a New York Times bestseller the paper's Book Review named it one of the Ten Best Books of 2015 and NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and other outlets gave the book rave reviews. In 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin ![]()
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