Black Girl in Paris

About this book

"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.

Subjects

• 1000blackgirlbooks
• african american authors
• african americans, fiction
• african american women authors
• american authors
• americans
• authors
• authors, fiction
• fiction
• fiction, general
• france
• france, fiction
• intellectual life
• lesbians
• new york times reviewed
• paris (france), fiction