Review Paradise affirms Berlin as one of the more underrated writers of her time. The stories take place all over the world and have the same, yes, grit as her acclaimed A Manual for Cleaning Women.-- "Entertainment Weekly"The stories in Evening in Paradise mostly follow the arc of Berlin's life...The protagonists, though seen from a variety of perspectives, are women much like herself. One thing that makes Berlin so valuable is her gift for evoking the sweetness and earnestness of young women who fall in love...Berlin probably deserved a Pulitzer Prize...She managed to write, beautifully, about the hard and the awkward things.-- "New York Times Book Review"Berlin's writing achieves a dreamy, delightful effect as it provides a look back through time. This collection should further bolster Berlin's reputation as one of the strongest short story writers of the twentieth century.-- "Publishers Weekly"A Manual for Cleaning Women posthumously collected stories by the brilliant, under-the-radar Berlin. It went off like firecrackers. Here, as the subtitle says, are more stories for now-hungry fans.-- "Library Journal"No dead author is more alive on the page than Berlin: funny, dark, and so in love with the world.-- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Thank god for the posthumous revival of Lucia Berlin-how sad it would be to have never experienced her distinctive, vibrant voice. In these twenty-two stories, we see more of her world through fiction reflective of her own life in Texas, Chile, and Mexico. Her characters are utterly captivating...and her scenery envelops you. But it's the early stories, those that follow the meandering adventures of kids just trying to fill their days, that are most alive.-- "BuzzFeed" Product Description A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia BerlinIn 2015, FSG 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 outlets gave the book rave reviews.Evening in Paradise is a careful selection from the remaining Berlin storiesa jewel box follow-up for Lucia Berlin's hungry fans. About the Author Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) worked brilliantly but sporadically throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Her stories are inspired by her early childhood in various Western mining towns; her glamorous teenage years in Santiago, Chile; three failed marriages; a lifelong problem with alcoholism; her years spent in Berkeley, New Mexico, and Mexico City; and the various jobs she later held to support her writing and her four sons. Sober and writing steadily by the 1990s, she took a visiting writer's post at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1994 and was soon promoted to associate professor. In 2001, in failing health, she moved to Southern California to be near her sons.