Full name: A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

Author: Lucia Berlin Year: 2015 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781250094735 9780374202392 1250094739 0374202397

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. Similar books: Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr Family Furnishings by Alice Munro Blueprints for Building Better Girls by Elissa Schappell A Permanent Member of the Family by Russell Banks The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol The Hermit's Story by Rick Bass The Secret Goldfish by David Means Nothing Gold Can Stay by Ron Rash A Relative Stranger by Charles Baxter Dancing After Hours by Andre Dubus Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Great Dream of Heaven by Sam Shepard Collected Stories of Reynolds Price by Reynolds Price The Fahrenheit Twins by Michel Faber Evening in Paradise by Lucia Berlin The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez