You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down

Women stand their ground in the midst of crisis in this story collection by the New York Times –bestselling author of The Color Purple .  This collection builds on Alice Walker’s earlier work, the much-praised In Love & Trouble . But unlike her first collection of stories, the women in these tenderly wrought tales face their problems head on, proving powerful and self-possessed even when degraded by others—sometimes by those closest to them. But even as the female protagonists face expl