How to Die in Paris

by Naturi Thomas

Book Overview

How to Die in Paris is an edgy, poetic, often darkly comic, memoir of a young middle-class black woman who escapes a tortured past in New York to pursue a new life in Europe--only to find herself broke, desperate, and contemplating suicide on the streets of Paris.

Penniless, scared, and hoping for rescue, Thomas turns to a series of unlikely male suitors: an impoverished Italian who exposes her to the reality of immigrant struggle,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580053645
• ISBN13: 9781580053648
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"