Sorel : A jovial and positive man, he helps teach Gilda the ways of the vampires. She’s continuously wandering the world as a way to discover other indigenous groups and help them when she can, exploring her own identity as she travels and never happy in one place. She is destined to wander, “never truly happy until she had picked another destination” as Gilda describes her. The real dream is to make a world–to see the people and still want to make a world.” (44)īird : The Other’s lover, she is of Lakota origin and the teacher and parental figure of Gilda (although their relationship is far more complicated than that). “My dream was to see the world, over time. How long she has lived is unknown although she states that it has been many hundreds of years and she only has vague memories of her life before becoming undead. The Other (Original Gilda) : Very caring of those around her, she is the founder of Woodard’s, Bird’s lover and Gilda’s vampiric creator.

She loves and treasures humanity, cultivating it through the meaningful relationships she builds and the arts she practices and ultimately struggles with herself and how to form long lasting bonds other than those formed with Sorel and Anthony and is the protagonist of this novel. Gilda : Ever fascinated and dependent on the concept of humanity and where she fits in, she is an observer more than anything else.

The gilda stories by jewelle gomez