{"product_id":"welcome-home-a-memoir-with-selected-photographs-and-letters-paperback","title":"Welcome Home: A Memoir with Selected Photographs and Letters - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLucia Berlin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJeff Berlin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"As the case with her fiction, Berlin's pieces here are as faceted as the brightest diamond.\" --Kristin Iversen, \u003ci\u003eNYLON\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW \u003c\/i\u003eEDITORS' CHOICE\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Fall Read by \u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed, Vulture, Newsday \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHuffPost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA compilation of sketches, photographs, and letters, \u003ci\u003eWelcome Home\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential nonfiction companion to the stories by Lucia Berlin\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBefore Lucia Berlin died, she was working on a book of previously unpublished autobiographical sketches called \u003ci\u003eWelcome Home\u003c\/i\u003e. The work consisted of more than twenty chapters that started in 1936 in Alaska and ended (prematurely) in 1966 in southern Mexico. In our publication of \u003ci\u003eWelcome Home\u003c\/i\u003e, her son Jeff Berlin is filling in the gaps with photos and letters from her eventful, romantic, and tragic life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Alaska to Argentina, Kentucky to Mexico, New York City to Chile, Berlin's world was wide. And the writing here is, as we've come to expect, dazzling. She describes the places she lived and the people she knew with all the style and wit and heart and humor that readers fell in love with in her stories. Combined with letters from and photos of friends and lovers, \u003ci\u003eWelcome Home\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential nonfiction companion to \u003ci\u003eA Manual for Cleaning Women\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEvening in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucia Berlin\u003c\/b\u003e (1936-2004) worked brilliantly but sporadically throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Her stories are inspired by her early childhood in various Western mining towns; her glamorous teenage years in Santiago, Chile; three failed marriages; a lifelong problem with alcoholism; her years spent in Berkeley, New Mexico, and Mexico City; and the various jobs she held to support her writing and her four sons. Sober and writing steadily by the 1990s, she took a visiting writer's post at the University of Colorado in Boulder in 1994 and was soon promoted to associate professor. Her books include\u003ci\u003e A Manual for Cleaning Women\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWelcome Home, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEvening in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2001, in failing health, she moved to Southern California to be near her sons. She died in 2004 in Marina del Rey. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLucia's books include \u003ci\u003eA Manual for Cleaning Women\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWelcome Home\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEvening in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772570894624,"sku":"9781250234858","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/243ca43db64c9d853ab4ef1585ec9b3f.webp?v=1780408708","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/welcome-home-a-memoir-with-selected-photographs-and-letters-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}