Posts Tagged ‘A Manual for Cleaning Women’
Lucia Berlin: A Master of Catholic Fiction, Part 2
October 13, 2015
Continued from yesterday. Catholic imagery appears throughout Lucia Berlin’s A Manual for Cleaning Women, the posthumous selected stories that has brought her singular fiction out of obscurity. The magnificent “El Tim,” a story about a charismatic adolescent Mexican-American boy who disrupts a Catholic school with his sly behavior, begins: “A nun stood in each classroom…
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