Daddy Was a Number Runner
8 best books like Daddy Was a Number Runner (Louise Meriwether): The Darkest Child, The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers, Heavy: An American Memoir, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, Speaking of Summer, Brown Girl, Brownstones, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
| Author | Delores Phillips |
| ISBN | 1569473781 |
Bakersfield, Georgia, 1958: Thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae Quinn is the sixth of ten fatherless siblings. She is the darkest-skinned among them and therefore the ugliest in her mother, Rozelle's, estimation, but she's also the brightest. Rozelle--beautiful, charismatic, and light-skinned--exercises...
The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
| Author | Bridgett M. Davis |
| ISBN | 0316558737 |
Set against the backdrop of Detroit in the 1960's and 1970's, the story of the life of a one-of-a-kind matriarch whose business in the Numbers made her daughter's dreams come true.
The World According to Fannie Davis is Bridgett Davis's unforgettable coming of age in a family with a secret....
Heavy: An American Memoir
| Author | Kiese Laymon |
| ISBN | 1501125656 |
In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse.
Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In...
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
| Author | Glory Edim |
| ISBN | 0525619771 |
An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature.
Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That...
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing.
“By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it’s exactly the book America needs at this moment.”—Celeste...
The new novel from the author of Upstate, one of five books selected by the National Book Foundation for the inaugural Literature for Justice Program: a literary thriller about one woman's desperate search for her missing twin sister, a multi-layered mystery set against the neighborhoods of Harlem.
On...
| Author | Paule Marshall |
| ISBN | 1558614982 |
Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, "Brown Girl, Brownstones" is the enduring story of a most extraordinary young woman. Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants, is caught between the struggles of her hard-working, ambitious mother, who wants to "buy house" and educate...
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
| Author | Jane Smiley |
| ISBN | 0449910830 |
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