CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Foreword by Kevin Bowen
Introduction: “The Saint of Seeing” by George Saunders
I. STORIES
From The Little Disturbances of Man
Goodbye and Good Luck
A Woman, Young and Old
The Loudest Voice
An Interest in Life
Two Short Sad Stories from a Long and Happy Life
1. The Used-Boy Raisers
2. A Subject of Childhood
From Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Living
Come On, Ye Sons of Art
Faith in a Tree
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
A Conversation with My Father
The Long-Distance Runner
From Later the Same Day
Friends
Mother
Ruthy and Edie
Zagrowsky Tells
II. ESSAYS
From Just As I Thought
Injustice
The Illegal Days
Jobs
Six Days: Some Rememberings
Cop Tales
The Seneca Stories: Tales from the Women’s Peace Encampment
Women’s Pentagon Action Unity Statement
Of Poetry and Women and the World
Thinking About Barbara Deming
The Gulf War
Report from North Vietnam
El Salvador
Other People’s Children
Some Notes on Teaching: Probably Spoken
Imagining the Present
The Value of Not Understanding Everything
Feelings in the Presence of the Sight and Sound of the Bread and Puppet Theater
Traveling
From Long Walks and Intimate Talks
Midrash on Happiness
III. POEMS
Fidelity
For Danny
My Mother: 33 Years Later
Suddenly There’s Poughkeepsie
In the Bus
A Poem About Storytelling
News
Connections: Vermont Vietnam (I)
Connections: Vermont Vietnam (II)
In San Salvador (I)
That Country
On the Ramblas A Tree A Girl
People in My Family
My Father at 85
Sisters
On Occasion
Anti-Love Poem
My Sister and My Grandson
Fathers
Luck
The Hard-Hearted Rich
Responsibility
For My Daughter
Letter
Fear
Families
Saint-John’s-wort!
Goldenrod
Then
Is There a Difference Between Men and Women
Definition
Education
One Day
This Hill
Notes
Afterword by Nora Paley
Chronology
A Short List for Suggested Further Reading
Also by Grace Paley
A Note About the Author
Copyright