Title: Some love, some pain, sometime
First published: 1995
Description: Employing her characteristic themes of romance, heartbreak, struggle, and faith, Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime is Cooper at her best.

We meet Darlin, a self-proclaimed femme fatale who uses her wiles to try to find a husband; MLee, whose life seems to be coming to an end at the age of forty until she decides to set out and see if she can make a new life for herself; Kissy and Buddy, each of whom is trying and failing to find someone to fit them until they finally meet each other; and Aberdeen, whose daughter, Uniqua, shows her how to educate herself and move up in the world.

These characters and others offer inspiration, laughter, instruction, and pure enjoyment in what is sure to be one of J. California Cooper's most popular collections of stories.
Subjects: Fiction, African Americans, Man-woman relationships, Social life and customs, American Short stories, Large type books, Manners and customs, Fiction, short stories (single author), African americans, fiction
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century