Jewelle Gomez explores the borders that might separate and contain our identities. In evoking the women who raised her and lived on those borders she takes us deep inside her reclamation of her Wampanoag/Ioway/Cape Verdean and Lesbian roots.
Jewelle Gomez explores the borders that might separate and contain our identities. In evoking the women who raised her and lived on those borders she ...
Before Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butler's Fledgling, there was The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez's 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 Room
"Jewelle Gomez sees right into the heart. This is a book to give to those you want most to find their own strength."Dorothy Allison
This remarkable novel begins in 1850s Louisiana, where Gilda...
Before Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butler's Fledgling, there was The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez's sexy vampire no...