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By: Lucia Berlin

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  • CategoryFiction
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Pages406
  • Published2015
  • File size1.4 MB
  • FormatPDF
  • ISBN9780374202392

Key ideas from the book

  • The collection presents short fiction shaped by humor and melancholy.
  • Its stories portray women navigating work and difficult circumstances.
  • The settings range from the American Southwest and Northern California to Mexico City.
  • Readers encounter everyday life in places such as cafeterias, laundromats, and homes.
  • The collection offers short-story readers portraits of women described as strong, clever, and real.

About A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin

Lucia Berlin’s A Manual for Cleaning Women brings together short stories marked by humor and melancholy. Its settings include cafeterias and laundromats in the American Southwest, homes in Northern California, and a hotel dining room in Mexico City.

Berlin’s stories portray women facing work, loss, and everyday demands with wit and resilience. This collection will suit readers of short fiction interested in vivid portrayals of women’s lives and settings across California and Mexico.

About Lucia Berlin

Lucia Berlin (1936–2004) was an American short-story writer whose fiction drew on her experiences living in places including Alaska, Chile, Mexico, and New Mexico, and working a range of jobs, from teaching to nursing and cleaning. Her stories portray the complications of everyday life with wit, candor, and compassion. A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous collection of her work, brought renewed attention to her writing and introduced many readers to her distinctive voice.

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