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

Genevieve Yang was an only child

Clyburn is renowned as a Democratic kingmaker and our nation's most august Black political leader

The world is spinning out of control as new villains spill into town

children will realize they are in control and learn to wait in a positive way

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