The late American writer Lucia Berlin is one of the most idiosyncratic and downright brilliant authors you’re likely never to have heard of. Happily, many of her short stories are now newly republished in a single, electrifying collection.
A Manual for Cleaning Women, the tale that provides its title, typifies her work’s milieu and preoccupations. It’s narrated by a college-educated single mum who cleans for a living, offering droll tips to fellow maids as she goes. Though structured around the bus routes that take her from house to house, what propels it is her vast yet barely acknowledged grief for a dead lover.
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