A review by geoffwood
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin

5.0

There's an old joke. Uh, two elderly women are at a Catskills mountain resort, and one of 'em says: "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know, and such ... small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about [this book]. Full of loneliness and misery and suffering and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.