{"product_id":"welcome-home-4","title":"Welcome Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Evocative . . . poignant . . . acute and funny'' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''The Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin Continues Apace'' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBest known for her short fiction, it was upon publication of\u003ci\u003e A Manual for Cleaning Women\u003c\/i\u003e in 2015 that Lucia Berlin’s status as a great American writer was widely celebrated. To populate her stories – the places, relationships, the sentiments – Berlin often drew on her own rich, itinerant life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore Berlin died, she was working on a book of previously unpublished autobiographical sketches called \u003ci\u003eWelcome Home\u003c\/i\u003e.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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 humour that readers fell in love with in her stories.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57316842930558,"sku":"NW9781509882366","price":9.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781509882366.jpg?v=1778694636","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/welcome-home-4","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}