What are the motifs in In Love & Trouble; Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker?

Love is a motivator in many people's lives. In these stories, love is the motive for many of the characters that populate them. In Her Sweet Jerome, Mrs. Washington is so in love with her husband that she is willing to kill any woman who might be his lover. In The Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff, Hannah so loves her children that she seeks revenge against the woman she blames for their death rather than the husband who left her. In Strong Horse Tea, a woman is so desperate to save her child she is willing to collect horse urine to cure his illness.