Welcome Home
06 August 2020Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'Evocative . . . poignant . . . acute and funny' Observer
'The Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin Continues Apace' New York Times
Best known for her short fiction, it was upon publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women in 2015 that Lucia Berlin’s status as a great American writer was widely celebrated. To populate her stories – the places, relationships,...
Details
06 August 2020144 pages
9781509882366Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A beauty inside and out.Chris Power, author of Mothers
A jigsaw-puzzle portrait of a long-neglected literary legend, baring the autobiographical material that filtered so forcefully into her fiction. The mystery of her fiction is not, it turns out, in the source of its inspiration. It is in how Berlin transformed her life into art that is as vital as the thing itself.Vogue
Welcome Home comes sadly in fragments only . . . But everything that elevates her short fiction to the peaks of greatness is evident too in the pages documenting her peripatetic early life and her many trials. Her sentences have a smokiness and sad glamour to them; she evokes the many places of her life so memorably, so bluesily.Kevin Barry, Irish Times
Welcome Home gives a sense of the joyousness of [Berlin’s] personality, which is as urgently expressed in all her writing as loneliness and desperation are. Her writing loves the world, lingers over details of touch and smell.Atlantic
