{"product_id":"manual-for-cleaning-women-selected-stories-10th-anniversary-edition","title":"Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories (10th Anniversary Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times'\u003c\/i\u003e 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. International bestseller. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Manual for Cleaning Women\u003c\/i\u003e compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e' 100 Best Books of the Twenty-First Century and a classic of short fiction, Lucia Berlin's \u003ci\u003eA Manual for Cleaning Women\u003c\/i\u003e was a global sensation upon its publication in 2015, eleven years after its author's death. Largely unheralded throughout her peripatetic life, Berlin was a fiction writer of staggering, singular genius. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafted miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the Laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers and bad Christians. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten over the course of thirty years, the forty-three stories in \u003ci\u003eA Manual for Cleaning Women\u003c\/i\u003e--collected here in a 10th anniversary edition--are short fiction at its most unforgettable and original, told with unmistakable style by a master of the form.","brand":"Lucia Berlin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52017102586087,"sku":"9781250406057","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0913\/8151\/files\/9781250406057-us.jpg?v=1777397104","url":"https:\/\/neighborbookstx.com\/products\/manual-for-cleaning-women-selected-stories-10th-anniversary-edition","provider":"Neighbor Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}