Black Girl in Paris is a novel written by American author Shay Youngblood, originally published in 2000 by Riverhead Books, then reprinted in 2013 by Blue Cloud Press.
[1] In 1986 Eden Daniels, a 26 year old African-American woman decides to move to Paris to follow in the steps of other artists she's admired and try to become a writer.
Eden falls in love with Ving, a white American jazz musician, but their relationship is complicated as they still face prejudice for being an interracial couple.
She befriends Luce, a Haitian born woman living in Paris who teaches Eden how to steal in order to survive.
Luce leaves Paris and Ving returns, sending Eden to his friends near Saint-Paul-de-Vence, where James Baldwin has an estate.
One of the first pages of the novel describe how within Eden's first couple of days in Paris, there were four separate explosions that killed three people and wounded 170.
From 1985-1986 a series of terrorist attacks took place in Paris, France that were carried out by the Committee for Solidarity With Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners.
Eden: The story's protagonist who is a black woman that has moved from Georgia to Paris to pursue her dream of writing.
Indego takes Eden on guides throughout Paris in unfamiliar alley ways, shortcuts, bakeries, and bookstores in the city.