A review by zinelib
The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett M. Davis

3.0

This is part a biography of the author's mother and part a history of Numbers, which I only knew about because I read Daddy Was a Number Runner when I was a kid. I still have it on my shelf and should read it again, as it's been 10 or 20 years. I was interested in the subject matter--a strong, Black woman making her way in a world where everything was stacked against her, but ultimately found the writing a little dry and gave up. The issue is surely me, not the author, since my social isolation reading concentration is for shit.