BLACK GIRL IN PARIS
Shay Youngblood
£6.99
'Shay Youngblood has a luminously poetic quality aligned with the power of the shape-shifter. Mesmerising'
Bonnie Greer
Like James Baldwin, Langston Hughes and Josephine Baker, Eden leaves the American South nurturing a dream of finding artistic emancipation in the City of Light. Once in Paris, she experiments freely, inhabiting different incarnations - artist's model, poet's helper, au pair, teacher, thief, lover - to keep body and soul together, to discover her sexual self, and to give life to her dreams of becoming a writer.
Black Girl in Paris, which wends its way around the mythology of Paris as a legendary hothouse for African-American artists, is a captivating novel of artistic discovery.
Shay Youngblood
was born in Columbus, Georgia. She is the author of a number of plays, a collection of short stories and the acclaimed first novel Soul Kiss. The winner of a Pushcart Prize, she lives in New York City.