Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Grace Paley
- First Published: 1974
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Social issues, Alienation, Friendship, Women’s issues, Storytelling, Women, Death or dying
The Work
In Grace Paley’s Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, identity is a personal and a social issue in the struggle for a peaceful world. Most of the characters in this short-story collection are middle-aged women, such as Faith Darwin, who resembles, but is not intended to be, Paley’s alter ego; others are simply those about whom stories are told—the children who have died or suffered from neglect, poverty, drug abuse, and the Vietnam War.
The main characters in these stories act with defiance and hope. In “Enormous Changes at the Last Minute,”...
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