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

4.0

Bridgett Davis combines memoir with history and social commentary in The World According to Fannie Davis. The reader not only learns about her coming of age with pressure to keep family secrets and her mother’s successful, but often tortured life, but also abou the history of Numbers in the African American community. Davis ties Numbers to Hope, to the sustainability of a community, which is the perspective that was the most surprising and intriguing about this book. Davis is a talented writer, and this book is filled with researched facts as much as it is tender moments of growth for both Bridgett and her mother.