It is a grim day and I have a cold.
One of my comfort books is Lucia Berlin’s A Manual for Cleaning Women.
The short story I’m reading, ‘502’, is characteristically sharp, tragicomic, clear-eyed and subtle. Like the rest of the collection, it begs to be read again and again.
More on Lucia Berlin via The New Yorker: ‘The Story is the Thing’
A review of A Manual for Cleaning Women in the Guardian