City Lights Publishers Releases Jewelle Gomez's THE GILDA STORIES

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.

The 25th anniversary edition contains a new foreword by Jewelle Gomez reflecting on the publication history and an afterword by Alexis Pauline Gumbs.

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