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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO FANNIE DAVIS
My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
A DAUGHTER'S LOVE FOR HER DAZZLING MOTHER IS AT THE
HEART OF THE WORLD ACCORDING TO FANNIE DAVIS
HEART OF THE WORLD ACCORDING TO FANNIE DAVIS
In 1958, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee borrowed $100 from her brother to run a Numbers racket out of her tattered apartment on Delaware Street, in one of Detroit's worst sections. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis' mother.
A kind of Ulysses, Fannie became more than a numbers runner, guiding both her husbands, five children and a grandson through the decimation of a once-proud city using her wit, style, guts, and even gun. She ran her numbers business for 34 years, doing what it took to survive in a legitimate business that just happened to be illegal. She created a loving, joyful home, and when the tragedy of urban life struck, soldiered on with her stated belief: "Dying is easy. Living takes guts."
The World According to Fannie Davis is a daughter's moving homage to an extraordinary parent, as well as the suspenseful, unforgettable story about the lengths to which a mother will go and how those sacrifices resonate over time. This timely and deeply relatable portrait of one American family is essential reading.
Bridgett M. Davis is the author of two novels, Into the Go-Slow (Feminist Press, 2014) and Shifting Through Neutral (Amistad, 2005). She is also writer/director of the award-winning feature film Naked Acts; her work has appeared in Salon, Essence, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Root and The Washington Post. A native of Detroit, she's a graduate of Spelman College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She teaches creative and film writing at Baruch College, CUNY, and lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and two children.
A kind of Ulysses, Fannie became more than a numbers runner, guiding both her husbands, five children and a grandson through the decimation of a once-proud city using her wit, style, guts, and even gun. She ran her numbers business for 34 years, doing what it took to survive in a legitimate business that just happened to be illegal. She created a loving, joyful home, and when the tragedy of urban life struck, soldiered on with her stated belief: "Dying is easy. Living takes guts."
The World According to Fannie Davis is a daughter's moving homage to an extraordinary parent, as well as the suspenseful, unforgettable story about the lengths to which a mother will go and how those sacrifices resonate over time. This timely and deeply relatable portrait of one American family is essential reading.
Bridgett M. Davis is the author of two novels, Into the Go-Slow (Feminist Press, 2014) and Shifting Through Neutral (Amistad, 2005). She is also writer/director of the award-winning feature film Naked Acts; her work has appeared in Salon, Essence, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Root and The Washington Post. A native of Detroit, she's a graduate of Spelman College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She teaches creative and film writing at Baruch College, CUNY, and lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and two children.
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Published 2019-01-29 by Little, Brown |