How to Die in Paris: A Memoir

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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 Europeonly to find herself broke, desperate, and contemplating suicide on the streets of Paris. Penniless, scared, and... read more

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Stewie
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Frankie
Dana
Bertram
Tommy
John
Mrs. Whidby
Jamie
Jason
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Dewey: 305.4896073044361092

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Books › Travel › Europe › France › Paris
Books › Nonfiction › Current Events › Poverty
Books › Parenting & Families › Family Relationships › Child Abuse
Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Ethnic & National › African-American & Black
Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Specific Groups › Women
Books › Health, Mind & Body › Mental Health
Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Memoirs
Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences

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