{"product_id":"welcome-home-book-lucia-berlin-9781250234858","title":"Welcome Home","description":"\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\u003e EDITORS' CHOICE\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eNamed a Fall Read by \u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed, Vulture, Newsday\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHuffPost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A 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Berlin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Before Lucia Berlin died, she was working on a book of previously unpublished autobiographical sketches called \u003ci\u003eWelcome Home\u003c\/i\u003e.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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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, \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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50317969424657,"sku":"CIN1250234859G","price":4.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51087882813713,"sku":"CIN1250234859VG","price":8.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53257668460817,"sku":"NIN9781250234858","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1250234859.jpg?v=1751335512","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/welcome-home-book-lucia-berlin-9781250234858","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}