Black Girl in Paris
by Shay Youngblood
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Author: Shay YoungbloodEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-01-01
ISBN: 1573228516
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
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Book Review: A Lovely Read for a Summer Day
Summary: 3 Stars
I'd like to start by congratulating the author for her fluid prose. This book very much reads like a dream. Ms. Youngblood has talent. And I do recommend this novel.HOWEVER! The story line was lacking in so many ways. Dreamy-eyed Eden hops on a plane to Paris hoping to encounter her literary godfather and to become a writer herself. Apparently creativity flows freely in Paris as opposed to anywhere else on the planet. Her stay in the "city of lights" is riddled with difficulties that could have easily been avoided had she only PLANNED the trip in advance. This is not such a far-fetched idea-- Eden is a college grad. Black Girl lands in Paris without so much as a hotel reservation! She conveniently hooks up with strangers who are oh so generous. Eden is very much a co-conspirator to her misfortune.
Throughout the book the issues of race and racism are present. Eden drags her "blackness" around like a dead weight. In her mind she is a victim. It taints her thinking and her interactions with everybody.
Eden though comes across as real and vulnerable. She is easy to like. Her lover, Ving, was adorable. But the rest of the supporting characters were very much caricatures. The blasé rich white women, the go-lucky black artists, the racist poet... The portrayal of the Haitian student who is deported was a classic cliché.
Unfortunately, this little book was the triumph of style over substance-- something that Eden swore she'd never let happen in her writing. Oh, yes, Eden does manage to get around to writing after a lot of drama, soul searching (good) and self-pity (bad).
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