- Fiction, Lesbian vampires, African Americans, Vampires
A very unusual vampire story. A young Black woman escapes being enslaved and ends up becoming a vampire. Takes place between the 1850s and 2020 or so.
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Grave, earnest, contemplative and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Firebrand Books, Penguin Random House, City Lights Books
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781784878627
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“The Girl slept restlessly, feeling the prickly straw as if it were teasing pinches from her mother.”
Jewelle Gomez is a writer and activist and author of the double Lambda Award-winning novel, THE GILDA STORIES from Firebrand Books. Her work centers on women's experiences, particularly those of LGBTQ women of color. https://www.jewellegomez.com/bio.html
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