Reader’s Choice: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

Reader’s Choice: Anneli Sundqvist

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley

MaineCat catalog record (SPL copy on order)

“In this collection of short stories, originally published in 1974, Grace Paley ‘makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant’ (Angela Carter, London Review of Books). Her stories here capture ‘the itch of the city, love between parents and children’ and ‘the cutting edge of combat’ (Lis Harris, The New York Times Book Review). In this collection of seventeen stories, she creates a ‘solid and vital fictional world, cross-referenced and dense with life’ (Walter Clemons, Newsweek).” – From publisher website

About Anneli

Hometown: I grew up in the north of Sweden.

Current residence: I moved to Deer Isle in 2008, after many years of traveling the world, and have lived here full time since then.

Why do you read? I love to read historical fiction, as it’s always been the only way for me to comprehend that subject. In general I favor books that offers a glimpse into other peoples realities, whichever genre it happens to be.

Currently reading: As has been the case for a while now, I’m reading whatever’s on the book club’s roster, and that’s all I can keep up with, and some odd New Yorker articles.

Why did you choose Enormous Changes at the Last Minute? I was choosing between different short story collections and this came to me sight unseen from a friend in the  book publishing industry. I watched a YouTube with Paley reading one of the stories and was immediately infatuated!