The Gilda Stories (Penguin Speculative Fiction Special) | Jewelle Gomez (Author) + Jewelle Gomez (Foreword by) + Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Afterword by) Kelly Quindlen whose groundbreaking cartoons became some

whose groundbreaking cartoons became some of the first empowering depictions of Black women in America

"[A] bracing memoir and manifesto

This is one conversation that’s never too early to start

Powell is the first and only cartoonist ever to win the National Book Award

The Gilda Stories (Penguin Speculative Fiction Special) | Jewelle Gomez (Author) + Jewelle Gomez (Foreword by) + Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Afterword by) Kelly Quindlen whose groundbreaking cartoons became someBefore Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butlers Fledgling, there was The Gilda Stories, now as a new Penguin Classics hardcover, a Penguin Speculative Fiction Special A Penguin Classic Hardcover First published in 1991, The Gilda Stories is a groundbreaking speculative fiction vampire novel that begins in 1850s Louisiana, where a young Gilda escapes slavery and learns about freedom while working in a brothel. After being initiated into eternal