“The Gilda Stories does what vampire stories do best: hold up a larger-than-life mirror in which we can see our hopes, fears, dreams, and flaws. These stories remain classic and timely.” I feel a connection to Gilda-her tenacity, her desire for community, her insistence on living among humanity with all its flaws and danger. “I devoured this 25th anniversary edition of The Gilda Stories with the same hunger as I did when I first read it. Joan Steinau Lester, author of Black, White, Other Gilda’s resilience is a testament to black queer women’s love, power, and creativity. “Jewelle Gomez’s big-hearted novel pulls old rhythms out of the earth, the beauty shops, and living rooms of black lesbian her-story.
Cheryl Clarke, author of Living As A Lesbian From ‘Louisiana 1850’ to ‘Land of Enchantment 2050,’ from New Orleans to Macchu Pichu, through endless tides of blood and timeless evocations of place, Gilda’s ensemble of players transports me through two hundred years and a second century of black feminist literary practice and prophecy.” “Jewelle Gomez’s sense of culture and her grasp of history are as penetrating now as twenty-five years ago, and perhaps more so, given the current challenges to black lives. This all-American novel of the undead is a life-affirming read.” With sensory, action-packed prose and a poet’s eye for beauty, Jewelle Gomez gives us an empathy transfusion. “Gilda’s body knows silk, telepathy, lavender, longing, timeless love, and so much blood. Walidah Imarisha, co-editor of Octavia’s Brood It helps so many to understand how to take these mythologies that speak to us, pull them into our flesh, and breathe out visionary communities of resistance.” It has filled the desires of oppressed and marginalized peoples for stories of the fantastic that wear our faces. “The Gilda Stories has been vitally important for the development of a generation of dreamers engaged in radical imagination. Sarah Waters, author of Tipping the Velvet 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 patterns. “The Gilda Stories was ahead of its time when it was first published in 1991, and this anniversary edition reminds us why it’s still an important 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.” “This revolutionary classic by a pioneer in black speculative fiction will delight and inspire generations to come.”
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