I am not sure how to be fair to this collection of stories. I liked the first collection of Lucia Berlin stories in general and thought they were good, entertaining, and refreshing in a lot of ways. They were a kind of lost gem. Then I read the “memoir” published last year, and started to realize that whatever her output as a writer, those stories were the best. She died too young and didn’t write nearly as much as the world could have hoped for, […]
Nobody calls her Mrs. Tomanovich. She’s Mr. Tomanovich’s wife. Riva’s daughter. Irena Tomanovich’s mother.
Evening in Paradise by Lucia Berlin
