A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
by Lucia Berlin (also rec’d by Elena Ferrante )
Buy on AmazonLucia Berlin lived her life as an unknown writer who worked as a cleaning lady. This is a collection of short stories put together after her death; they are stories, but I think it’s understood that they are thinly veiled fiction, and you do feel you’re getting to know her as a person as well as a writer when you read them. The publisher did a wonderful job putting the stories together; they build on one another, and the book is really enjoyable to read as a whole. There is something very rou...
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"Lucia Berlin lived her life as an unknown writer who worked as a cleaning lady. This is a collection of short stories put together after her death; they are stories, but I think it’s understood that they are thinly veiled fiction, and you do feel you’re getting to know her as a person as well as a writer when you read them. The publisher did a wonderful job putting the stories together; they build on one another, and the book is really enjoyable to read as a whole. There is something very rou..."
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