A Manual for Cleaning Women

<p><b>Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books</b><br><br><i>The world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that it does matter, a whole lot.<br></i><br>With an introduction from Lydia Davis<br><br>Lucia Berlin’s stories in <i>A Manual for Cleaning Women</i> make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in twentieth-century American fiction.<br><br> With extraordinary honesty and magnetism, Lucia Berlin invites us into her rich, itinerant life: the drink and the mess and the pain and the beauty and the moments of surprise and of grace, with a voice is witty, anarchic, compassionate, and completely unique.<br><br> <b>Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.</b></p>