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. This is a book to give to those you want most to find their own strength.Dorothy AllisonThis remarkable novel begins in 1850s Louisiana, where Gilda escapes slavery and learns about freedom while working in a brothel. Before Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butlers Fledgling, there was The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomezs sexy vampire novel.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, author of RoomJewelle Gomez sees right into the heart.
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