Black girl in Paris
Subtitle: a novel
By: Shay Youngblood.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Baldwin, James, 1924- -- Fiction; Americans -- France -- Fiction; African American women authors -- Fiction; African American authors -- Fiction; Authors -- Fiction; Paris (France) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Black Girl in Paris wends its way around the mythology of 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."--BOOK JACKET.