The Gilda Stories (Penguin Speculative Fiction Special) | Jewelle Gomez (Author) + Jewelle Gomez (Foreword by) + Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Afterword by) Jonathan Eig Becoming is the deeply personal

Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations--and whose story inspires us to do the same

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The Gilda Stories (Penguin Speculative Fiction Special) | Jewelle Gomez (Author) + Jewelle Gomez (Foreword by) + Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Afterword by) Jonathan Eig Becoming is the deeply personalBefore 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