WELCOME HOME

A compilation of sketches, photographs, and letters, Welcome Home is an essential nonfiction companion to the stories by Lucia Berlin.

Before Lucia Berlin died, she was working on a book of previously unpublished autobiographical sketches called Welcome Home. 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 Welcome Home, her son Jeff Berlin is filling in the gaps with photos and letters from her eventful, romantic, and tragic life.

From 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, Welcome Home is an essential nonfiction companion to A Manual for Cleaning Women and Evening in Paradise.

Compilatie de schite, fotografii si scrisori, Welcome Home este un partener esential de non-fictiune al povestilor de Lucia Berlin. Inainte de a muri Lucia Berlin, lucra la o carte de schite autobiografice inedite, numita Welcome Home. Lucrarea a constat din peste douazeci de capitole care au inceput in 1936 in Alaska si s-au incheiat (prematur) in 1966 in sudul Mexicului.