Gilda Stories, The by Jewelle Gomez

"The Gilda Stories is an elegant, sensual, and natural vampire fantasy. Time-traveling from Southern slavery in 1850 to environmental devastation 200 years later, Gilda is the quintessential outsider seeking community. Jewelle Gomez combines a natural flair for storyteller with an ability to weave tapestries of personality that grab the mind's imagination and won't let go. A memorable story, deftly told." Midwest Book Review (from Amazon.com)

Paperback Info: ISBN 1563411407, Firebrand Books, 1995 (2nd edition, 1st edition published in 1991)