Evening in Paradise: More Stories
About this ebook
In 2015, eleven years after her death, Lucia Berlin became a literary sensation with her widely acclaimed short story collection, A Manual for Cleaning Women. Relatively unknown during her lifetime, Berlin earned comparisons to Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Alice Munro, and Anton Chekhov.
Evening in Paradise presents a new selection of Berlin's uncollected stories—twenty-two gems that showcase the gritty glamour that made readers fall in love with her. From Texas to Chile, Mexico to New York City, Berlin finds beauty in the darkest places and darkness in the seemingly pristine. Evening in Paradise is an essential volume from an author who “probably deserved a Pulitzer Prize” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times).
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.
Named one of the Best Books of 2018 by The Boston Globe, Kirkus, and Lit Hub.
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About the author
Lucia Berlin (1936–2004) worked brilliantly but sporadically throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Her stories are inspired by her early childhood in various Western mining towns; her glamorous teenage years in Santiago, Chile; three failed marriages; a lifelong problem with alcoholism; her years spent in Berkeley, New Mexico, and Mexico City; and the various jobs she held to support her writing and her four sons. Sober and writing steadily by the 1990s, she took a visiting writer's post at the University of Colorado in Boulder in 1994 and was soon promoted to associate professor. In 2001, in failing health, she moved to Southern California to be near her sons. She died in 2004 in Marina del Rey.
Lucia's books include A Manual for Cleaning Women, Welcome Home, and Evening in Paradise.
