Evening in Paradise

"There is little if any diminishment in quality or intensity (from A Manual for Cleaning Women) . . . Berlin probably deserved a Pulitzer Prize." —Dwight Garner, The New York TimesNamed a Fall Read by Buzzfeed, ELLE, TIME, Nylon, The Boston Globe, Vulture, Newsday, HuffPost, Bustle, The Millions, BUST, Reinfery29, Fast Company and MyDomaine A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia BerlinIn 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times bestseller; the paper's Book Review named it one of the Ten Best Books of 2015; and NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and other...