A Manual for Cleaning Women

A Manual for Cleaning Women

Lucia BerlinStephen Emerson (ed.)

#3752 of 8,085 books · #1920 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction (2015).

A Manual for Cleaning Women won the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015 and was named one of Jezebel's Favorite Books of 2016. 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.