The Gilda stories

ISBN: 9780872866744 (paperback)
Physical Description: print xiii, 259 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First City Light edition.
Publisher: San Francisco : City Lights Publishers, 2016.
Copyright: &copy;1991

Gomez, Jewelle 1948- (author.). Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, 1982- (writer of afterword.).

Summary: This remarkable novel begins in 1850s Louisiana, where Gilda escapes slavery and learns about freedom while working in a brothel. After being initiated into eternal life as one who "shares the blood" by two women there, Gilda spends the next two hundred years searching for a place to call home. An instant lesbian classic when it was first published in 1991, The Gilda Stories has endured as an auspiciously prescient book in its explorations of blackness, radical ecology, re-definitions of family, and yes, the erotic potential of the vampire story.