![]() ![]() ![]() The World According to Fannie Davis brilliantly highlights her wit, boundless generosity, and admirable resilience, while simultaneously chronicling Detroit’s highs and lows and carving out their family’s place in the sociopolitical context. Starting in the 1950s, Davis’s mother built up her family’s lives thanks to her work in the numbers, and the author writes a heartfelt tribute to this strong woman. I talked about her less and less because of that guilt, and that saddened me, as I knew that my mother’s work had transformed our family’s lives, kept us going.īefore lotteries were legal and state-run, playing the numbers was a form of gambling that was not only popular but imbued with deep cultural significance. Even before she understood exactly what that was and meant, Davis understood she had to keep what her mother did a secret. Davis’s mother Fannie was a number runner. Book review: The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers, by Bridgett M. ![]()
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