How long does it take to read In Love & Trouble?
Stories of Black Women
In Love & Trouble by Alice Walker takes about 2 hours 32 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 32 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1973. 138 pages, about 37,950 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 32 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The desires and fears of the American black woman are explored with compassion and understanding in these thirteen short stories. Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidence of Walker's power to depict black women-women who vary greatly in background yet are bound together. Dating back to the early 1970s and 1980s, respectively, these short stories cover the Pulitzer Prize winner's usual ground.
Subjects: Fiction, African American women, Afro-American women, African americans, fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), Social life and customs
