Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether

Daddy Was a Number Runner

Louise Meriwether

234 pages first pub 1970 (editions)

fiction classics historical race emotional reflective medium-paced
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Told from the perspective of a 12-year-old girl, this popular novel documents the disintergration of a black family in Harlem in the 1930s. A compelling, readable, occasionally funny work, it vividly illuminates the life of the ghetto, not just th...

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