![]() The first, “Welcome Home”, is a short, unfinished memoir of her first 29 years. Two new works will help sustain the revival. Berlin expertly balances beauty and bleakness, and finds drama, joy or revelation in humdrum experiences. Her fiction plays out in the many places she called home (18 in total) it features female protagonists who make the same choices and mistakes as she did, and do the same kinds of jobs (high-school teacher, emergency-room nurse, switchboard operator, cleaner). In the tales that appeared in a range of publications she mined the rich seam of her biography, drawing on her travels and struggles, her friendships and romances. She wrote fitfully throughout the following decades in California and Colorado while juggling a series of jobs, bringing up four sons, battling alcoholism and contending with disability. She studied in Albuquerque, moved to New York, and in 1960 eloped to Mexico. ![]() This nomadic lifestyle continued into adulthood. ![]() Born in Alaska in 1936, she spent her early childhood in a succession of mining camps and towns in Idaho, Kentucky and Montana, and her teenage years in Chile. ![]()
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