Gilda by Andrea Baker

Selected and introduced by Claudia Rankine

Andrea Baker’s Gilda is a haunting, a ghostly memory, a memory trace in which language approaches what we recognize as loss not through narrative but through metaphor. And yet her language slips beneath analogy to explore the impossibility of one human being’s ability to hold on to another.

—Claudia Rankine

Edition: 500 copies of the winning books were printed by the Prolific Group and designed by Gabriele Wilson.