A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories poetry with the world descending into

with the world descending into madness and anarchy

On her way home

and struggling: with mobility

Like many adoptees

A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories poetry with the world descending intoOne of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015 One of Jezebel's Favorite Books of 2016 A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the Laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the