16 Books to Curl Up With This Fall
With the switch of summer to fall comes an exciting and varied new book list—Ring in the new season with these twisted fantasies, profound autobiographies and vivid collections of short stories.
By Roxane Gay, Leigh Haber and Sarah Meyer
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A Manual for Cleaning Women
By Lucia Berlin
432 pages;
Picador
A study of tattered lives in the American Southwest, this posthumous collection of Berlin's fiction reilluminates a neglected talent. Whether set in a dingy laundromat in Albuquerque or a detox center in Oakland, each story explores the quiet catharsis and nuanced melancholy of the everyday.
— Sarah Meyer
Published 08/17/2015
