"As the case with her fiction, Berlin's pieces here are as faceted as the brightest diamond." —Kristin Iversen,
NYLON
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
EDITORS' CHOICE
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Named a Fall Read by
Buzzfeed, Vulture, Newsday
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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Before Lucia Berlin died, she was working on a book of previously unpublished autobiographical sketches called
. The work consisted of more than twenty chapters that started in 1936 in Alaska and ended (prematurely) in 1966 in southern Mexico. In our publication of
, her son Jeff Berlin is filling in the gaps with photos and letters from her eventful, romantic, and tragic life.
From Alaska to Argentina, Kentucky to Mexico, New York City to Chile, Berlin’s world was wide. And the writing here is, as we’ve come to expect, dazzling. She describes the places she lived and the people she knew with all the style and wit and heart and humor that readers fell in love with in her stories. Combined with letters from and photos of friends and lovers,
is an essential nonfiction companion to
A Manual for Cleaning Women
Evening in Paradise