Where I Live Now

"Berlin's style is unadorned, often telegraphic, rough-hewn, as if it were modeled on speech, the intimate letter and the journal. At its best, her writing has an uncommon transparency, so that we are almost wholly unaware of any authorial presence....[And she is] relentless, on occasion horribly so: when you are several paragraphs into a story you get a sinking, even sickening, feeling of recognition. But you read on. It is writing of a very high order and not always easy to take."Lucia Berlin is the author of 'Where I Live Now', published 1999 under ISBN 9781574230918 and ISBN 1574230913.