In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women

Readers of Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” will find in these stories further evidence of her power to depict black women-women who vary greatly in background but are bound together by their vulnerability to life: Roselily, on her wedding day, surrounded by her four children, prays that a loveless marriage will bring her respectability; a young writer, exploited by both her lover and her husband, wreaks an ironic vengeance; a jealous wife, looking for her husband’s mistress, finds a competitor she cannot fight; an old woman, thrown out of a white church, meets God on a highway. These are just a few of the seekers of dignity and love whom Alice Walker portrays in this astonishing collection.
“Alice Walker is one of the best American writers of today.”–“The Washington Post”
“Walker dares to reveal truths about men and women, about blacks and whites, about God and love. . . . And we, like Alice Walker’s marvelous characters, come away transformed by knowledge and love but most of all by wonder.”–“Essence”
Alice Walker is the author of seven novels, three collections of short stories, three collections of essays, seven volumes of poetry, and several children’s books. Her novel “The Color Purple” won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and her work has been translated into more than two dozen languages. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Walker lives in northern California.