Gee’s Bend, Alabama, was so isolated for so long that its only road out of town wasn’t paved until 1967. But the women of the little African-American hamlet have a tradition of creating such extraordinary quilts from whatever materials were available that a show of their work, from the 1930s to 1970s, was recently a runaway hit at the Museum of Fine Arts, in Houston, and then at the Whitney Museum, in New York City. Gee’s Bend: The Women and Their Quilts (Tinwood Books, 432 pages, $75) is a big, heavy, sumptuous presentation of more than 300 of the dazzling abstractions, with profiles of the women who created them.