A Manual for Cleaning Women

“Still reading it but already obsessed. Forty-three short stories written by Lucia Berlin over the course of thirty years. One of The New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the Twenty-First Century. Berlin was a fiction writer 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.”

“as great as you want to be. Extra fun if you've spent time in East Bay and know exactly what bus routes she's writing about, which apparently haven't changed for 50 years. "I can't stand you being dead Joe. But you already know that."”