Love's Promise

"These stirring stories of love, young and mature, of yearning and disappointment, of companionship and independence, place girls and women at the center. They are stories for our time, evoking a feminism that has as much to do with the quotidian life as with radical social transformation."-Angela Y. Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz"Palmer Adisa's writing is generous, her prose delicate and...
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"These stirring stories of love, young and mature, of yearning and disappointment, of companionship and independence, place girls and women at the center. They are stories for our time, evoking a feminism that has as much to do with the quotidian life as with radical social transformation."-Angela Y. Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz"Palmer Adisa's writing is generous, her prose delicate and delicious, her stories always quietly surprising. This book fulfills its promise." -Nalo Hopkinson, author of Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, Sister Mine and many more"Opal Palmer's collection reminds us that at the core of every human being love must come first. In difficult times we cannot be reminded of this enough." -Ana Castillo, author of Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me."Love's Promise brings vividly into focus the enduring, sometimes shocking, truths about love through the experiences of characters living in rural areas on a tropical island." -Zee Edgell, author of Beka Lamb and Time and the River"The stories in Love's Promise make an invaluable contribution to Caribbean literature, but also to global literature. The impulses, temptations, losses and triumphs of Opal Palmer Adisa's characters are universal."-Shanthi Sekaran, author of Lucky Boy"A master storyteller, Opal Palmer Adisa's latest collection of short stories, Love's Promise, is enchanting, refreshing, and soulful. Its familiar themes--friendship, woman-bonding, love, home, motherhood, passion--remind us in these treacherous times of life's treasures. Joy and pleasure are elusive but still possible!"-Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies and English at Spelman College and featured feminist in the 2013 PBS documentary Makers: Women Who Make America