Later the Same Day (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Grace Paley
- First Published: 1985
- Genres: Short fiction, Character study
- Subjects: Language or languages, Child rearing or parenting, Mothers, Parents and children, Racism, Communication, Friendship, Women’s issues, Jews or Jewish life, Storytelling, Women, Death or dying
The Work
Grace Paley’s Later the Same Day contains the stories of people speaking in the varied dialects of New York City. In these stories, identity is formed through people’s acts and through their unique stories. As in Paley’s earlier collection, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, Faith Darwin is a recurring character, but here she is the mature woman, looking back at her life. In “The Story Hearer,” for instance, Faith is asked to tell her lover, Jack, the story of her day. Despite her effort to “curb [her] cultivated individualism,” she ends...
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