![]() Read the opening foreword by Lydia Davis, and you’ll have no choice but to dive into the stories and then, well, you’re hooked with that voice, especially after you reach the wickedly funny title story (the fourth). Then she suddenly brings you back and knocks the wind out of you with one of her singular last lines.” Each of her stories unfolds in such unexpected ways you nearly forget where the tale has begun. ![]() ![]() She can transport you from the alcoholics of El Paso to the inmates of Oakland as easily as she can make you believe she was capable of loading a lethal dose into her addict husband’s syringe before going to the hospital to deliver his child. Geohegan: “The moves she makes in her fiction shadow the peripatetic nature of intimate conversation, and in turn, her peripatetic life. As art.Īs Elizabeth Geoghegan put it so beautifully in her piece in The Paris Review, it’s the voice that pulls you in. I think anyone interested in writing should read A Manual for Cleaning Women if only to realize that everyday life is observable and transformable as engaging prose. ![]()
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