As the case with her fiction, Berlin's pieces here are as faceted as
the brightest diamond. --Kristin Iversen, NYLON
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NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE*.*** Named a Fall Read by
Buzzfeed, Vulture, Newsday and HuffPost
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A compilation of sketches, photographs, and letters, Welcome Home is
an essential nonfiction companion to the stories by Lucia Berlin**
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unpublished autobiographical sketches called Welcome Home.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 Argentina, 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. Combined with letters from and photos of
friends and lovers, Welcome Home is an essential nonfiction companion
to A Manual for Cleaning Women and Evening in Paradise.