The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
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...
It's 1986 and twenty-one-year-old Angie continues to mourn the death of her brilliant and radical sister Ella. On impulse, she travels from Detroit to the place where Ella tragically died four years beforeNigeria. She retraces her sister's steps, all the while navigating the chaotic landscape of a major African country on the brink of...
Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Women's Fiction
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