Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether

Daddy Was a Number Runner

Louise Meriwether with James Baldwin

240 pages first pub 1970 (editions)

fiction classics historical race emotional reflective medium-paced
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This modern classic is “a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood” in 1930s Harlem—with a foreword by James Baldwin (Publishers Weekly).Depression-era Harlem is home for twelve-year-old Francie Coffin and her famil...

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