Before Lucia Berlin died, she was working on a book of previously unpublished autobiographical sketches called Welcome Home. The work consisted of more than twenty chapters that started in 1936 in Alaska and ended (prematurely) in 1966 in southern Mexico. In our publication of Welcome Home, her son, Jeff Berlin, is filling in the gaps with photos and letters from her eventful, romantic, and tragic life. From Alaska to Albuquerque, Kentucky to Mexico, New York City to Chile, Berlin's world was wide. And the writing here is, as we've come to expect, dazzling. She describes the places she lived and the people she knew with all the style and wit and heart and humor that readers fell in love with in her stories. Welcome Home is an essential nonfiction companion to A Manual for Cleaning Women and Evening in Paradise. An Indie Next List selection. A Vulture.com Pick of the Best New Books of the Month. A BuzzFeed Books Pick for Fall. A Newsday Pick of Fall Books. A Huffington Post Pick for Fall.
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