THE GILDA STORIES

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"Gomez's narrative voice is...often poetic lending this story a magical realism feel..." — Publishers Weekly "[The Gilda Stories] dives unflinchingly into exploration of blackness, radical ecology, redefinitions of family, and the politics of eroticism." — LitHub “On reading The Gilda Stories again, I was struck that it works brilliantly both as a historical work of fiction as well as a vampire story.” — J Mason, Huffington Post “From the start we are gripped by the fear and strength of the escaping slave girl and the weight of her remembrance...Gilda is both fun and nourishment.” — Jazz Magazine, London “...far more than a sexy vampire book...” — Shelf Awareness

“The Gilda Stories was ahead of its time when it was first published and this anniversary edition reminds us why it's still an important novel. Gomez's characters are rooted in historical reality yet lift seductively out of it, to trouble traditional models of family, identity, and literary genre and imagine for us bold new patters. A lush exciting, inspiring read.” —Sarah Waters, internationally-translated author of Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith “The Gilda Stories is groundbreaking not just for the wild lives it portrays, but for how it portrays them—communally, unapologetically, roaming fiercely over space and time.” —Emma Donoghue, internationally bestselling author of Room and The Pull of the Stars “This revolutionary class by a pioneer in black speculative fiction will delight and inspire generations to come.” —Tananarive Due, award-winning author of Ghost Summer and My Soul to Keep “The Gilda Stories have been vitally important for the development of an entire generation of dreamers engaged in radical imagination.” —Walidah Imarisha, editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements “Jewelle Gomez sees right into the heart. In Gilda's stories she has created a timeless journey, taken back into history and forward into possibility. This is a book to give to those you want most to find their own strength.: —Dorothy Allison, Lambda Award-winning author of Skin and Bastard Out of Carolina “Jewelle's big-hearted novel pulls old rhythms out of the earth, the beauty shops and living rooms of black lesbian herstory, expressed by the dazzling vampire Gilda. Her resilience is a testament to black queer women's love, power, and creativity. Brilliant!” —Joan Steinau Lester, author of Black, White, Other “In sensuous prose, Jewelle Gomez uses the vampire story as a vehicle for a re-telling of American history in which the disenfranchised finally get their say. Her take on queerness, community, and the vampire legend is as radical and relevant as ever.” —Michael Nava, author of The City of Palaces “I devoured the 25th anniversary edition of Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories with the same venal hunger as I did when I first read it. I still feel a connection to Gilda: her tenacity, her desire for community, her insistence on living among humanity with all its flaws and danger. The Gilda Stories are both classic and timely. Gilda emphasizes the import of tenets at the crux of black feminism while her stories ring with the urgency of problems that desperately need to be resolved in our current moment.” —Theri A. Pickens, author of New Body Politics