A review by rcollins1701
Evening in Paradise by Lucia Berlin

4.0

It’s no small compliment to say the worst stories of a second posthumous collection are only unremarkable when the best of them can show us the rise and fall of an entire generation in a few pages. It’s refreshing and heartening to read stories again that achieve profundity precisely by never reaching for it, instead striving to find the beauty in the quotidian.