The World According to Fannie Davis by Bridgett M Davis

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The World According to Fannie Davis by Bridgett M Davis

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The World According to Fannie Davis by Bridgett M Davis

As seen on the Today Show: This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s highlights "the outstanding humanity of black America" (James McBride).

In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee, borrowed $100 from her brother to run a numbers racket out of her home. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis's mother.

Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, and granddaughter of slaves, Fannie ran her numbers business for thirty-four years, doing what it took to survive in a legitimate business that just happened to be illegal. She created a loving, joyful home, sent her children to the best schools, bought them the best clothes, mothered them to the highest standard, and when the tragedy of urban life struck, soldiered on with her stated belief: "Dying is easy. Living takes guts."

A daughter's moving homage to an extraordinary parent, The World According to Fannie Davis is also the suspenseful, unforgettable story about the lengths to which a mother will go to "make a way out of no way" and provide a prosperous life for her family -- and how those sacrifices resonate over time.

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Bridgett M. Davis is the author of the memoir The World According To Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life In The Detroit Numbers, as well as the two novels Into the Go-Slow and Shifting Through Neutral, which was shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Award. She is writer/director of the award-winning feature film Naked Acts, and a creative writing and journalism professor at Baruch College - City University of New York, where she is director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Millions, Salon, LitHub, Real Simple, and O, The Oprah Magazine. A graduate of Spelman College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, she lives in Brooklyn with her family.

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ISBN 13 9780316558723
ISBN 10 0316558729
Title The World According to Fannie Davis
Author Bridgett M Davis
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Back Bay Books
Year published 2020-01-21
Number of pages 336
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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