Evening in Paradise

This second posthumous story collection by the New York Times–bestselling author of A Manual for Cleaning Women “shines with compassion and dark wit” (Guardian, UK).

In 2015, eleven years after her death, Lucia Berlin became a literary sensation with her widely acclaimed short story collection, A Manual for Cleaning Women. Relatively unknown during her lifetime, Berlin earned comparisons to Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Alice Munro, and Anton Chekhov.

Evening in Paradise presents a new selection of Berlin's uncollected stories—twenty-two gems that showcase the gritty glamour that made readers fall in love with her. From Texas to Chile, Mexico to New York City, Berlin finds beauty in the darkest places and darkness in the seemingly pristine. Evening in Paradise is an essential volume from an author who “probably deserved a Pulitzer Prize” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times).

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.
Named one of the Best Books of 2018 by The Boston Globe, Kirkus, and Lit Hub.