Black Girl in Paris by Shay Youngblood

Black Girl in Paris

Shay Youngblood

In her critically acclaimed new novel, Shay Youngblood, the Pushcart Prize-winning author of ‘Soul Kiss’, chronicles the Parisian odyssey of a young African-American woman retracing the footsteps of the literary legends who inspired her.

Black Girl in Paris wends its way around the mythology or Paris as a city that has called out to African-American artists. Like James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, and Josephine Baker before her, Youngblood’s heroine leaves her home, in the American South, nurturing a dream of finding artistic emancipation in the City of Light. She experiments freely, inhabiting different incarnations – artist’s model, poet’s helper, au pair, teacher, thief, and lover – to keep body and soul together, to stay afloat, heal the wounds of her broken heart, discover her sexual self, and, finally, to wrestle her dreams of becoming a writer into reality.


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Details

ISBN 9781573228510
Genre Black Interest; Fiction
Copyright Date 2000
Publication Date 01-Jan-01
Publisher Riverhead
Format Trade Paperback
No. of Pages 256
Notes Lambda Literary Award Finalist
Language English
Rating Good
Paper Type Electronic Format Available
Subject African American Authors/ Fiction; African American Women Authors; African American Women Authors/ Fiction; Americans; Americans/ France/ Fiction
BookID 1239

Author: LFWBooks