The Gilda Stories: The immortal cult classic

Gilda held the young woman in sleep and pulled her gently into her arms. A small incision at the side of the neck. Blood seeping out slowly. It reminded her of the wounds she and her sisters suffered on the plantation almost 100 years before. Lines of blood covered them until the flesh was hardened by experience.This remarkable novel charts the unending life of Gilda, a young woman who - after escaping slavery in Louisiana in 1850 - is made into a vampire. After being initiated into eternal life as one who 'shares the blood', Gilda spends the next two hundred years searching for a way to exist in the world.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 the power of female love.