![]() The stories are a master class in setting, with Berlin capturing the west Texas landscape perfectly: "We opened our eyes to the clear Texas sky. The first two stories in the book are set in El Paso, Texas, and follow a young girl named Lucha. It's a work of remembrance of the kinds of people who might otherwise be forgotten.īerlin's stories are set in a wide range of locations, mirroring the places she herself lived as a child and an adult: Texas, Chile, New Mexico, New York, California and, in her last years, Colorado. Just like A Manual for Cleaning Women, Berlin's new book is a marvel, filled with deeply touching stories about lives on the fringes. It seems likely that Evening in Paradise, the beautiful second anthology of Berlin's stories, will win over just as many readers as its predecessor. That changed three years ago with the publication of a posthumous collection of her selected stories, A Manual for Cleaning Women, which drew ecstatic reviews from critics and made several year-end best lists. During her remarkable life, she'd published her short stories in literary magazines and in small-press collections, but she never quite broke through to the larger literary scene. Lucia Berlin first became a literary superstar in 2015, 11 years after her death from cancer at the age of 68. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Evening in Paradise Subtitle More Stories Author Lucia Berlin ![]()
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