![]() ![]() ![]() Our family stories and memories have been slowly reshaped, embellished, and edited to the extent that I’m not sure what really happened all the time. Ma wrote true stories not necessarily autobiographical, but close enough for horseshoes. In the forward to Evening in Paradise, Berlin’s eldest son, Mark Berlin, described his mother’s stories this way: Berlin devotees could endlessly argue over which stories authentically represent the author’s history and which do not - especially once Welcome Home hits the shelves - but the distinction between the two is ultimately, and blessedly, irrelevant. Sometimes, however, Berlin experiments with different versions of her own reality, and she’s not at all interested in helping the reader discern the real from the fabricated. ![]() This fall, her legacy continues to grow with another collection of short stories, titled Evening in Paradise, as well as Berlin’s unfinished and previously unpublished memoir, Welcome Home.īerlin is often categorized as an autobiographical writer whose work would (arguably) fit into the now popular genre of autofiction. Berlin has finally received the widespread acclaim that she never saw in her lifetime. Berlin’s underground fans could finally breathe a collective “told-you-so” when the book hit the best-seller list 11 years after the author’s death in 2004. THREE YEARS AGO, readers were treated to a long-overdue feast with the publication of Lucia Berlin’s A Manual for Cleaning Women. ![]()
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