In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women

In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women

by Alice Walker
In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women

In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women

by Alice Walker

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Overview

Short fiction about the female experience from the New York Times best-selling author of The Color Purple, “one of the best American writers of today” (Washington Post).

Here are stories of women traveling with the weight of broken dreams, with kids in tow, with doubt and regret, with memories of lost loves, with lovers who have their own hard pasts and hard edges. Some from the South, some from the North, some rich and some poor, the characters that inhabit In Love & Trouble all seek a measure of self-fulfillment, even as they struggle with difficult circumstances and limiting social conventions.

The stories that make up Alice Walker’s debut short fiction collection reflect her tenacious commitment to face brutal and sometimes melancholy truths while also illuminating the ways in which the courageous pursuit of love brings hope to even the most harrowing lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780156028639
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 05/17/2004
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 160
Sales rank: 285,438
Product dimensions: 5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

About The Author
ALICE WALKER is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1983 and the National Book Award.

Hometown:

Mendocino, California

Date of Birth:

February 9, 1944

Place of Birth:

Eatonton, Georgia

Education:

B.A., Sarah Lawrence College, 1965; attended Spelman College, 1961-63

Table of Contents

Roselily3
"Really, Doesn't Crime Pay?"10
Her Sweet Jerome24
The Child Who Favored Daughter35
Everyday Use47
The Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff60
The Welcome Table81
Strong Horse Tea88
Entertaining God99
The Diary of an African Nun113
The Flowers119
We Drink the Wine in France121
To Hell with Dying129

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One of the most important, grieving, graceful, and honest writers ever to come into print....She can teach you to care and she can teach you to laugh, if you've got any soul left....This is a powerful, big, even a wild book.

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