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-Titulo Original : The World According To Fannie Davis My Mothers Life In The Detroit Numbers
-Fabricante :
Back Bay Books
-Descripcion Original:
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. Daviss 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 daughters 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. Review New York Times Editors ChoiceBuzzfeed Best Book of the YearParade Best Book of 2019Kirkus Best Memoirs of the YearCode Switch Book Club pickWell-Read Black Girl Book Club PickA Buzzfeed Book Club PickNBCs Best African-American Memoirs That Belong On Your BookshelfThe World According to Fannie Davis is a daughters gesture of loving defiance, an act of reclamation, an absorbing portrait of her mother in full. Blending memoir and social history, [Davis] recounts her mothers extraordinary story alongside the larger context of Motor Citys rise and fall. Jennifer Szalai, New York TimesDaviss heartwarming memoir honors her remarkable mother, who made a good life for her family in the 60s and 70s. New York Times, Editors ChoiceA rich and heartwarming memoir honors a remarkable mother....We need more stories like Fannies-the triumph and good life of a lucky black woman in a deeply corrupt world. New York Times Book ReviewThe novelist and teacher illuminates the life of her iron-willed mother, who in the 1960s and 70s spearheadedDetroits shadow economy (through an illegal lottery known as The Numbers) in order to bolster both her family and the citys burgeoning black middle class. O, Oprah Magazine Reading RoomThe author candidly and poignantly transports readers to her formative years in Detroit, where her mother, Fannie, successfully ran numbers-- right from the familys dining room table-- with class, determination and dignity to spare. Bridgette Bartlett Royall, Essence MagazineThe book blends memoir with the compelling social history of the numbers, a lottery game that operated outside of the law but very much inside the context of African-American life and culture. Kate Tuttle, The Boston GlobeThe story of Fannie Davis, as her daughter so thoroughly tells it, is the story of not just one woman, in one city, at one period in time; it is, in many ways, the story of black America, the resilience and solidarity of the marginalized. Entertainment WeeklyNovelist Bridgett M. Davis turned to nonfiction in what started out as the story of her mother...But this memoir turned out to be much more: a panorama of African-American communities in this era, the resolve they demonstrated and the restrictions put upon them in their pursuit of the American dream. Its a family story of nationwide scale. David Canfield, Entertainment WeeklyBridgett M. Davis draws a loving portrait of her unforgettable mother who gamed the system and won. Davis is a witness to the journey of the African American strivers of Detroit, but she is also a witness to the evolution of her own remarkable family history. Combining rigorous re
-Fabricante :
Back Bay Books
-Descripcion Original:
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. Daviss 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 daughters 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. Review New York Times Editors ChoiceBuzzfeed Best Book of the YearParade Best Book of 2019Kirkus Best Memoirs of the YearCode Switch Book Club pickWell-Read Black Girl Book Club PickA Buzzfeed Book Club PickNBCs Best African-American Memoirs That Belong On Your BookshelfThe World According to Fannie Davis is a daughters gesture of loving defiance, an act of reclamation, an absorbing portrait of her mother in full. Blending memoir and social history, [Davis] recounts her mothers extraordinary story alongside the larger context of Motor Citys rise and fall. Jennifer Szalai, New York TimesDaviss heartwarming memoir honors her remarkable mother, who made a good life for her family in the 60s and 70s. New York Times, Editors ChoiceA rich and heartwarming memoir honors a remarkable mother....We need more stories like Fannies-the triumph and good life of a lucky black woman in a deeply corrupt world. New York Times Book ReviewThe novelist and teacher illuminates the life of her iron-willed mother, who in the 1960s and 70s spearheadedDetroits shadow economy (through an illegal lottery known as The Numbers) in order to bolster both her family and the citys burgeoning black middle class. O, Oprah Magazine Reading RoomThe author candidly and poignantly transports readers to her formative years in Detroit, where her mother, Fannie, successfully ran numbers-- right from the familys dining room table-- with class, determination and dignity to spare. Bridgette Bartlett Royall, Essence MagazineThe book blends memoir with the compelling social history of the numbers, a lottery game that operated outside of the law but very much inside the context of African-American life and culture. Kate Tuttle, The Boston GlobeThe story of Fannie Davis, as her daughter so thoroughly tells it, is the story of not just one woman, in one city, at one period in time; it is, in many ways, the story of black America, the resilience and solidarity of the marginalized. Entertainment WeeklyNovelist Bridgett M. Davis turned to nonfiction in what started out as the story of her mother...But this memoir turned out to be much more: a panorama of African-American communities in this era, the resolve they demonstrated and the restrictions put upon them in their pursuit of the American dream. Its a family story of nationwide scale. David Canfield, Entertainment WeeklyBridgett M. Davis draws a loving portrait of her unforgettable mother who gamed the system and won. Davis is a witness to the journey of the African American strivers of Detroit, but she is also a witness to the evolution of her own remarkable family history. Combining rigorous re
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