{"product_id":"the-world-according-to-fannie-davis-my-mothers-life-in-the-detroit-numbers-9780316558723","title":"The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers","description":"\u003cb\u003eAs seen on the \u003ci\u003eToday Show\u003c\/i\u003e: 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).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee, borrowed $100 from her brother to run a numbers racket out of her home. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis's mother.\u003cbr\u003ePart bookie, part banker, mother, wife, and granddaughter of slaves, Fannie ran her numbers business for thirty-four years, doing what it took to survive in a legitimate business that just happened to be illegal. She created a loving, joyful home, sent her children to the best schools, bought them the best clothes, mothered them to the highest standard, and when the tragedy of urban life struck, soldiered on with her stated belief: \"Dying is easy. Living takes guts.\"\u003cbr\u003eA daughter's moving homage to an extraordinary parent, \u003ci\u003eThe World According to Fannie Davis\u003c\/i\u003e is also the suspenseful, unforgettable story about the lengths to which a mother will go to \"make a way out of no way\" and provide a prosperous life for her family -- and how those sacrifices resonate over time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBridgett M. Davis\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Journalism and the Writing Professions at Baruch College, CUNY, where she teaches creative, film and narrative writing and is Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program. A graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta, and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, she is the director of the award-winning feature film \u003ci\u003eNaked Acts\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the author of two novels, \u003ci\u003eInto the Go-Slow\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShifting Through Neutral\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her family.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460134703378,"sku":"9780316558723","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5b26ad79-5400-4435-a4f4-cb44329de9d8.jpg?v=1730029905","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-world-according-to-fannie-davis-my-mothers-life-in-the-detroit-numbers-9780316558723","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}