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AUTHOR: Shay Youngblood
PUBLISHER: Riverhead Trade
LANGUAGE: English
DATE: 2001
PRINTING: First
PAGES: 256
ISBN: 1573228516
Black Girl in Paris
by Shay Youngblood
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.
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A main character (Eden) is attracted to people of multiple genders.
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