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.
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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 | 9780704346758 |
| Genre | Black Interest; Fiction |
| Copyright Date | 2000 |
| Publication Date | 01-Nov-00 |
| Publisher | Women’s Press |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 248 |
| Notes | Lambda Literary Award Finalist |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Good |
| Subject | African American Girls; Fiction / Erotica; Fiction / General; Self-realization; Women authors |
| BookID | 1240 |
