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Some short-story writers - Chekhov, Alice Munro, William Trevor - sidle up and tap you gently on the shoulder: Come, they murmur, sit down, listen to what I have to say. Lucia Berlin spins you around, knocks you down and grinds your face into the dirt. You will listen to me if I have to force you, her stories growl. But why would you make me do that, darlin'? . . . Berlin's stories are full of second chances . . . bits of life, chewed up and spat out like a wad of tobacco, bitter and rich.' New York Times Book Review# '[Berlin's] work is being compared to Raymond Carver, for her similar oblique, colloquial style, her mordant humour, the recurrence of alcoholics, and her interest in the lives of working-class or marginalised people. But only Carver's very final stories share Berlin's eye for the sudden exaltation in ordinary lives.' Sarah Churchwell, 'Best Books of 2015', Guardian