{"product_id":"gilda-stories-book-jewelle-gomez-9780932379948","title":"The Gilda Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butler's Fledgling, there was The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez's sexy vampire novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 Room\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJewelle Gomez sees right into the heart. This is a book to give to those you want most to find their own strength.Dorothy Allison\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGomez's women are savvy and bold, with a sense of ancestry and history. . . . The author's compassion, affection, and respect for her characters are infectious.Library Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJewelle Gomez is a writer, activist, and the author of many books including Forty-Three Septembers, Don't Explain, The Lipstick Papers, Flamingoes and Bears, and Oral Tradition. The Gilda Stories was the recipient of two Lambda Literary Awards, and was adapted for the stage by the Urban Bush Women theater company in thirteen United States cities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexis Pauline Gumbs was named one of UTNE Reader's 50 Visionaries Transforming the World, a Reproductive Reality Check Shero, a Black Woman Rising nominee, and was awarded one of the first-ever Too Sexy for 501c3 trophies. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore praise for The Gilda Stories: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJewelle'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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50299056161041,"sku":"CIN093237994XG","price":12.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50406837453073,"sku":"CIN093237994XVG","price":12.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/093237994X.jpg?v=1751012573","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/gilda-stories-book-jewelle-gomez-9780932379948","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}