![]() ![]() ![]() Davis 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. Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, granddaughter of slaves, Fannie Davis became more than a numbers runner: she was a kind of Ulysses, guiding both her husbands, five children and a grandson through the decimation of a once-proud city.īridgett M. Davis's mother.Ī daughter's moving homage to an extraordinary parent, The World According to Fannie Davis is also the suspenseful, unforgettable story about the lengths to which a mother will go to "make a way out of no way" to provide a prosperous life for her family - and how those sacrifices resonate over time. ![]() In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed 0 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee borrowed 0 from her brother to run a Numbers racket out of her tattered apartment on Delaware Street, in one of Detroit's worst sections. ![]()
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