In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women Background

In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women is a collection of short stories written by the famous author Alice Walker. Alice Walker is an American writer, poet, and activist. She has written many books about black people and their sufferings. She also raised many campaigns asking for black rights. Most, if not all, of her work (movies, poems, novels, etc) portrayed at least something that the black people suffered from and how it affected their life and personality. She won numerous awards, and some of her books are taught in school as literary books.

In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women contains thirteen short stories, each narrating a story about a black woman and a problem she faced in her life that affected the rest of her life and, in some of them, destroyed it. The most famous one of them is 'Everyday Use', which talks about an old mother with two daughters, where one of them decides to change her identity and leave her family, and the other one stays with her mother but is constantly having personality issues because of the signs of burns on her body from a fire she witnessed in her childhood. The story talks about how the mother kept making handmade quilts to remind herself and her children of their heritage but the first daughter who traveled didn't like them and they made her feel bad about herself.

On the basis of online comments, the novel is loved by almost everyone who reads it. Alice Walker knew how to get to people's hearts and make them feel what the blacks feel. She tries to abolish racism and does that in her poems and novels. This novel earned a 4 out of a 5-star rating on Goodreads. An anonymous person wrote a full review of the book on her website and said: "It’s a powerful and, at times, horrifying collection with persistent themes of cruelty, betrayal, mutilation, vengeance and death." Courtney H., a member of Goodreads, wrote a powerful review of the book and said: "The stories are fantastic, almost too much so. Each story plunges you into a fully realized world of characters and circumstances, the kind of world that could propel an entire novel. And Walker is so good at making these character breathe for us, so good at making their concerns and lives vital to the readers, that it's like a slap in the face when the story ends and a new story abruptly begins--on the very next page, with not even a blank page to give us a moment to digest and mourn what we lost."