![]() “He felt that way too,” says Tina, “I heard the catch in his throat.” Close Enough for Horseshoes They look face-on at the pathologies that make up civilisation and its counterpoint, and their vision is impossible to resist. The 43 stories constitute an intense, varied and always engaging volume celebrating the humanity in cruelty, the beauty beneath ugliness and, most astonishingly, the shape – the meaning – in the amorphous grind of invisible and ostensibly wasted lives.īerlin’s stories have a power and rhythm of their own, a companionable force that takes the reader jovially by the hand and tightens to a painful grip. ![]() In this phrase, the narrator unwittingly articulates the experience of reading A Manual for Cleaning Women. But then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that it does matter, a whole lot.” ![]() “The world just goes along,” says Tina, a rehabbing heroin addict, “Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. There is a moment in Berlin’s story, “Strays”: ![]()
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