In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women Amazon Crossing Desperate to believe that they’re

Desperate to believe that they’re about to witness a miracle

there isn't a woman in the state of California who's safe from the reach of an unspeakable threat

and exquisitely imagined

a big family and a real home in the hidden city of Uhuru

A book marked by honesty

In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women Amazon Crossing Desperate to believe that they’reShort 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