Discussing “A Manual for Cleaning Women” by Lucia Berlin

Led by former Greenlight general manager Alexis, our fiction book group meets monthly to discuss paperback fiction, reading broadly in contemporary fiction with the occasional diversion into classics. For November, the group discusses A Manual for Cleaning Women, a New York Times bestseller that 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 every day—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.

Time: 7:00-8:00 pm EST

Free!

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