The world according to Fannie Davis : my mother's life in the Detroit numbers / Bridgett M. Davis.

An homage to the author's mother relates how she cleverly played Detroit's illegal lottery in the 1970s to support the family while creating a loving, joyful home and mothering her children to the highest standards.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Bridgett M. (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Edition:First United States edition.
Subjects:
Davis, Fannie.
Davis, Bridgett M. > Family.
African American women > Michigan > Detroit > Biography.
African American families > Michigan > Detroit > Biography.
Detroit (Mich.) > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women.
HISTORY > African American.
African American families.
African American women.
Families.
Michigan > Detroit.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
Physical Description:xi, 308 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Author's note
  • Prologue
  • Hitsville, USA
  • Hey, you never know
  • Living takes guts.