The Little Disturbances of Man

Name: The Little Disturbances of Man
Author: Grace Paley

by Grace Paley

Story collection exploring working-class Brooklyn women's lives

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Grace Paley

American short-story writer and activist whose three slim collections are among the most celebrated in American literature. Her vernacular New York voice and feminist politics are inseparable. She is a patron saint of American short fiction.

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