Where I Live Now: Stories 1993-1998

by Lucia Berlin

Book Overview

In Where I Live Now, Berlin contemplates the human condition with a compassionate understanding. Berlin's vision is sometimes remorseful, sometimes resigned, always courageous. The elusive nature of happiness is a compelling theme here: the survivors in these stories--many of them society's marginal or excluded people, fighting alcohol or drug addiction, bearing emotional scars--recognize it all too well.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574230913
• ISBN13: 9781574230918
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

DARKHORSE OF AMERICAN SHORT FICTION

As in her other collections, Berlin writes to-the-bone truths in language so simple and clear you won't know what hit you. "Where I Live Now" is as deep and honest as an old scar; it will tempt you to keep sneaking glances at its lumpy form, imagining the pain that put it there - and the impossible healing of which we are all capable.

A fascinating collection of stories.

Lucia Berlin is one of the most underappreciated short story writers and her latest collection is full of arresting portraits of women and their families in the contemporary American West.

Who I Read Now.

Lucia Berlin's prose sneaks up on you and, with spare simple language, bowls you over. As with her two earlier collections from Black Sparrow, Berlin fills these stories with sad, yet inspiring characters living on or near the fringe of society. We get to see the lives of teachers and nurses, people we usually view only in the context of their work, up close and in alarming detail. Berlin is a joy to read.