![]() She was born in 1936 in Alaska, and her father, who worked as a mining engineer, moved the family every few years throughout the American West until the family settled in Chile when Lucia was a teenager. ![]() This scene’s appearance in both story and memoir also highlights the now apparent overlap between Berlin’s fiction and her extraordinary, difficult life. These two additions reveal how powerfully Berlin’s literary imagination was shaped by the twin beliefs seeded in her encounter with the recluse’s wallpaper: that stories can keep you company-keep you sane-during periods of deep loneliness, and that stories improve when they’re fractured and opened up for intervention. Berlin’s short fiction came to wide attention, 11 years after her death in 2004, with the posthumous publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women, which is joined this fall by Welcome Home and another set of stories, Evening in Paradise. ![]() It’s a touch too poetic an origin story, maybe, but you can see its motifs-isolation, wilderness, a ragged narrative that needs to be reassembled-all over her body of work. In Welcome Home, Berlin suggests that this was her first lesson in literature. ![]()
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