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A Manual for Cleaning Women

By Lucia Berlin

Publisher: Picador
Pages: 432

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

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