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A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin
In 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times bestseller; the paper’s Book Review named it one of the Ten Best Books of 2015; and NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and other outlets gave the book rave reviews.
The book’s author, Lucia Berlin, earned comparisons to Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Alice Munro, and Anton Chekhov. Evening in Paradise is a careful selection from Berlin’s remaining 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 piece of Berlin’s oeuvre, a jewel-box follow-up for new and old fans.
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“Berlin’s writing achieves a dreamy, delightful effect as it provides a look back through time. This collection should further bolster Berlin’s reputation as one of the strongest short story writers of the twentieth century.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“Paradise affirms Berlin as one of the more underrated writers of her time.”
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“Berlin probably deserved a Pulitzer Prize…She managed to write, beautifully, about the hard and the awkward things.”
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“Berlin’s prose reads like poetry and feels like memory.”
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“There’s not a single story in Evening in Paradise that’s less than beautiful. Berlin had a gift for language.”
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“Thank god for the posthumous revival of Lucia Berlin…Her characters are utterly captivating…and her scenery envelops you.”
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“Her voice sounding seven, seventeen, or like someone’s grandfather; adapting Spanish, Syrian, or New York accents; channeling new mothers or weary middle-aged men…Garcia takes on a classic Hollywood cast.”
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“No dead author is more alive on the page than Berlin: funny, dark, and so in love with the world.”
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“These works capture human relationships and interactions with care and grace, making the ordinary extraordinary and the extraordinary achingly familiar…Beautifully realized stories with good, old-fashioned virtues.”
— Library Journal
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A Millions.com Pick of Most Anticipated Books
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A BuzzFeed Books Pick of Best Short Story Collections
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A Literary Hub Pick of Fall Books
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A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week
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An Entertainment Weekly Pick for November
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A Time Magazine Pick of November's Best Books
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A Bustle Pick of November's Best Fiction
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A Refinery29 Pick of November's New Books
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A Nylon Magazine Pick of New Books for November
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A Vulture.com Pick of Best New Books of the Month
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A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of Best Books Now in Paperback
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One of Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year
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A Library Journal Best Books of the Year selection
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A Booklist Pick of Best Audiobook of the Week
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About Lucia Berlin
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 later 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 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.
About Kyla Garcia
Kyla Garcia is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. Born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, she discovered acting at the age of eight when she played Lady Macbeth in a children’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. She made her off-Broadway debut at fifteen when she played Dorothy in Oz: A Twisted Musical. Eleven years after she discovered her passion for acting, she would go on to play Lady Macbeth once again in London at the Globe Theatre, where she studied Shakespeare during her third year at Mason Gross School of the Arts. She received her BFA in acting from Rutgers University.