Description
A luminous gathering of Grace Paley’s short fiction, this collected volume brings together stories that move with the urgency of lived experience—tender, funny, and sharply observant. Across everyday encounters and sudden turns of fate, Paley traces the private negotiations of love, identity, and moral responsibility, often through voices that feel immediate and unmistakably human. Her characters confront the fragility of happiness and the shock of loss, yet the stories remain animated by wit and a fierce belief in connection. With Paley’s distinctive, conversational style and her gift for turning small moments into lasting emotional truths, these stories illuminate what it means to want, to choose, and to keep going.
Available Editions
paperback
Farrar Straus Giroux
Published Jan 1, 1994
386 pages
ISBN: 9780374126360
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Details
First Published
1994
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Collected Stories by Grace Paley.