Where I Live Now: Stories 1993-1998 — 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.