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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    December 1990
  • Latest Book:
    November 2020
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Book List in Order: 9 titles



  • Homesick collects many of the stories first found in Lucia Berlin's early books Angels Laundromat (Turtle Island), Phantom Pain (Tombouctou Press) and Safe And Sound (Poltroon Press) as well as Manual for Cleaning Women.

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  • In 1981, John Martin published Lucia Berlin s fourth collection of stories and remained her publisher through her last collection, published in 1993. With the recent publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women, and the sustained critical acclaim it ha...



  • In Where I Live Now, Berlin contemplates the human condition with a compassionate understanding. Berlin's vision is sometimes remorseful, sometimes resigned, always courageous. The elusive nature of happiness is a compelling theme here: the surviv...



  • "I have always had faith that the best writers will rise to the top, like cream, sooner or later, and will become exactly as well-known as they should be-their work talked about, quoted, taught, performed, filmed, set to music, anthologized. Perhaps,...



  • By the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of Evening in Paradise, poignant, personal short stories for fans of Grace Paley, Annie Proulx, and Alice Munro. In 1990, Black Sparrow Press published Lucia Berlin’s first full-length collection of storie...



  • The New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of So Long contemplates the human condition in this short story collection for fans of Grace Paley & Alice Munro. The elusive nature of happiness is a compelling theme in Where I Live Now. The survivors in ...



  • 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, t...



  • A compilation of sketches, photographs, and letters, Welcome Home is an essential nonfiction companion to the stories by Lucia Berlin Before Lucia Berlin died, she was working on a book of previously unpublished autobiographical sketches called We...







Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lucia Berlin has published 9 books.

Lucia Berlin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Wives, was published in November 2020.

The first book by Lucia Berlin, Homesick, was published in December 1990.

No. Lucia Berlin does not write books in series.