Daddy Was a Number Runner Audiobook by Louise Meriwether

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Title: Daddy Was a Number Runner
Subtitle: A Novel
Categories: African American, Coming of Age, Fiction, Historical Fiction
Author: Louise Meriwether
Narrator: Karen Murray
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Release date: 06-21-2022
Language: English

Summary:
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 family, and it's both a place of refuge and the source of untold dangers for her and her poor, working class family. The beloved "daddy" of the title indeed becomes a number runner when he is unable to find legal work, and while one of Francie's brothers dreams of becoming a chemist, the other is already in a gang. Francie is a dreamer, too, but there are risks in everything from going to the movies to walking down the block, and her pragmatism eventually outweighs her hope; "We was all poor and Black and apt to stay that way, and that was that." First published in 1970, Daddy Was a Number Runner is one of the seminal novels of the Black experience in America. The New York Times Book Review proclaimed it "a most important novel."