The Gilda Stories

Author: Jewelle Gomez
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1529910463
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
'A groundbreaking work of Afrofuturism before the term was even coined' Guardian 'A lush, exciting, inspiring read' Sarah Waters In this radically reimagined vampire myth, the night hides many things... Louisiana, 1850. A young girl escapes slavery and is taken in by two mysterious women. Rumoured to be witches, the pair travel only at night, dress in men's clothing and seem to know others' innermost thoughts. But the girl sees the promise of true freedom in their dark glittering eyes: the promise to 'share the blood' and live forever. They name her Gilda. Over the next two hundred years, Gilda moves through unseen spaces: through antebellum brothels, gold-rush bars, Black women's suffrage groups, hair salons and jazz clubs, searching for a way to exist in the world. Her body, powerful against the passage of time, will know both beauty and horror through the women she desires and the blood she craves. But can Gilda truly outrun the darkness of history and face a future where the lives of everyone she loves are at stake?

It's Always Something

Author: Gilda Radner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439148864
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
Fresh from the Second City troupe in Toronto, Gilda Radner created such memorable characters as Emily Litella and Roseanne Roseannadanna as a member of the original cast of Saturday Night Live. The wife of Gene Wilder, Gilda was plagued by persistent health problems and two miscarriages, and was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1986. Brave, funny, and painfully honest, the twentieth-anniversary edition of It's Always Something is the story of Gilda's journey while living with cancer and her determination to continue laughing. "Cancer," she said, "is about the most unfunny thing in the world." But Gilda's gutsy and unique sense of humor never left her as she describes two years of cancer treatment -- surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment, as well as the high and low points of her own career. Told as only Gilda could tell it, and newly revised to include a resource guide for those living with cancer, It's Always Something is the inspiring story of a courageous, funny woman determined to enjoy life no matter the circumstances.

Don't Explain

Author: Jewelle Gomez
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description
Short stories featuring lesbians. The story, Houston, is on a black lesbian vampire, while Water with Wine is on a love affair between a black professor and a white student.

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

Author: Emily Austin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982167351
Category : FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
"Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she's there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace. In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her crumbling apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace's old friend. She can't bear to ignore the kindly old woman, who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can't bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace's death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence."--Amazon.

Gilda the Giant Sheep

Author: Emilio Urberuaga
Publisher: Nube Ocho
ISBN: 9788417123246
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

Book Description
Gilda was living a quiet life, but being so big made things more complicated for her. Now she needs to set off to find a new home.

Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator

Author: Jennifer Allison
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142406988
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
Ever since her father died, quirky Gilda Joyce has been working hard to sharpen her psychic skills. She's determined to communicate with spirits from the Other Side and become a crack investigator of spooky, twisted mysteries. After wrangling an invitation to visit relatives in San Francisco, Gilda discovers that her dreary, tight-lipped uncle and his strange, delicate daughter need her help to uncover the terrible family secret that has a tortured ghost stalking their home. From poignant to hair-raising and hilarious, this is a behind-the-scenes, tell-all account of the very first case in the illustrious career of Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator.

Forty-three Septembers

Author: Jewelle Gomez
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Gomez writes about her experiences as a lesbian and an African American.

My Father's Daughter

Author: Gilda Morina Syverson
Publisher: Parnassus Press
ISBN: 9781941859100
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
A Novello Literary Award finalist, this captivating memoir exudes passion, eloquence, heartfelt language and ancestral roots. A trilogy tale, with ancient sites of Rome, contrasting the landscape of a picturesque countryside, seaside villages of Sicily, and olive trees in the valley of Mount Etna. All in the language of love and food, Gilda Morina Syverson is out to uncover her past.

The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction

Author: Jerry Rafiki Jenkins
Publisher: New Suns: Race, Gender, and Se
ISBN: 9780814214015
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
"This book examines the link between blackness and immortality in the fledgling genre of African American vampire fiction"--

Gilda Joyce: the Ghost Sonata

Author: Jennifer Allison
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780142412329
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
Gilda Joyce?s best friend, Wendy Choy, is chosen to participate in a piano competition in Oxford, England, so of course super-sleuth Gilda finds a way to go too. Once there, the grueling practice schedule takes a backseat to strange and spooky occurrences. There are foreboding tarot cards that keep appearing to the participants and ominous numbers etched in frosty windowpanes. But even more chilling are Wendy?s ghostly nightmares of a young boy?and the haunting melody she can?t shake out of her mind. Could there be a sinister connection to the piano competition? Gilda has a genuine haunting on her hands, and solving this one will take every ounce of psychic intuition she?s got!