Lucia Berlin: valuable posthumous discovery

Prepared exclusively for Spanish-speaking readers by Jeff Berlin, one of her four children, the book brings together fifteen unpublished stories or drafts of the stories that made her famous (among them “Manzanas”, the first story she wrote and where they are now the tools of his talent), six revealing articles and theoretical essays, five fragments from his diaries, in which, together with his friend Allen Ginsberg, an Argentine poet sneaks in. Finally, it contains an extraordinary biographical appendix made by Jeff Berlin that allows us to explore the fictional, convoluted life, of heights and falls, with passing love affairs and sustained passions, alcohol and drugs, adventures through Chile, Mexico and towns in the interior of the United States, the parades of her changing jobs: nurse, telephone operator (not to be missed “Centralita”, a story where racism appears in the least expected place), cleaning woman, teacher both in universities and in a prison. The son tells in that biography what his mother brilliantly knew how to translate into fiction.