In Love and Trouble :Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker US $5.56 Published by Harcourt Brace, April 1, 1985 Back Cover: 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 yet are bound together by their vulnerability to life: Roselily, on her wedding day, surrounded by her four children, prays that a love- less marriage will bring her respectability; a young writer, exploited by both her lover and her husband, wreaks an ironic vengeance; a destitute, ignorant girl, unable to get a doctor for her sick child, is advised to try "strong horse tea"; a jealous wife, looking for her hus- band's mistress, finds a competitor she cannot fight; an old woman, thrown out of a White church, meets God on a highway. These are some of the seekers of dignity and love whom Alice Walker portrays in an enlightening, disturbing view of life in the South. "A powerful, big, even a wild book."—June Jordan. Read the short story Everyday Use from this collection Order it from Amazon
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