Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether

Daddy Was a Number Runner

Louise Meriwether

240 pages paperback 1970

8 editions

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This modern classic is "a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood" in 1930s Harlem--with a foreword by James Baldwin (Publishers Weekly). Depression-era Harlem is home for twelve-year-old Francie Coffin and her fam...

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