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Title
The world according to Fannie Davis - my mother's life in the Detroit numbers
The world according to Fannie Davis - my mother's life in the Detroit numbers
Author
Bridgett M Davis
Bridgett M Davis
format
Hardback
Hardback
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
English
UK Publication Date
20190129
20190129
Description
As seen on the TODAY SHOW
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' mother.
Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, granddaughter of slaves, Fannie 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, 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" to provide a prosperous life for her family -- and how those sacrifices resonate over time.
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