In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women

Alice Walker tells the stories of black women who vary greatly in background but who are bound together by their vulnerability to life: Roselily, on her wedding day, surrounded by her four children, pays that a loveless marriage will bring her respectibility; 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 and nine other women represent the seekers of dignity and love portrayed in this new collection from the Pulitizer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author.