Where I Live Now: Stories 1993-1998 cover

Where I Live Now: Stories 1993-1998

by Lucia Berlin

In Where I Live Now , Berlin contemplates the human condition with a compassionate understanding. Berlin's vision is sometimes remorseful, sometimes resigned, always courageous. The elusive nature of happiness is a compelling theme here: the survivors in these stories―many of them society's marginal or excluded people, fighting alcohol or drug addiction, bearing emotional scars―recognize it all too well.

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