![]() ![]() The author examines sexuality in light of power and poverty and sex after suffering a loss.Īs a grown woman, the narrator works as a nurse and a cleaning woman. ![]() Stories address girls first learning how to flirt to having sex for the first time after sobriety. Other stories explore how a woman’s sexuality evolves. She wants to fit in at the school, but her religion and family prevent her from doing this. Other stories about the girl find her attending a Catholic school as the only Protestant student. The collection then takes the reader into the past as a young girl helps her grandfather pull out his teeth to prepare for a set of false teeth. A middle-aged woman reflects on her addiction and loneliness in the opening story. The stories cover a range of issues facing the characters. ![]() 2016 Edition.Ī Manual for Cleaning Woman is a collection of short fiction by Lucia Berlin. This study guide refers to A Manual for Cleaning Women, by Lucia Berlin: Picador Paperback. ![]()
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