The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers

Today's post is on The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett M. Davis. It is 320 pages long and is published by Little, Brown, and Company. The cover is a mixture of images with a picture of Fannie Davis in the bottom left hand corner. There intended reader is someone who is interested in memoirs and African American history. There is some mild foul language, no sex, and no violence in this book. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the back of the book- 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. The upper middle class splendor in which she and her siblings so happily lived was made possible by her mother's business in the Numbers, the informal lottery that powered African American communities across the United States. A poignant and revealing examination of how one family lifted itself out of poverty and into a completely different life, for good and bad, The World According to Fannie Davis introduces us to an unforgettable matriarch, and her daughter, whose ways of understanding still resonate today.
Offering a daughter's perspective on her larger-than-life mother, Bridgett Davis traces her family's story as part of the Great Migration, showing how her mother and father arrived in Detroit from Tennessee carrying with them not just their own hopes but also those of their families. A child gifted with extraordinary powers of perception and understanding, Davis breaks the code of secrecy around her mother's business and in so doing reveals both her mothers' extraordinary sacrifices as well as her seemingly endless generosity. We come to understand just how keenly Fannie Davis believed in the power of money, and family, to make the world right.
Moving, suspenseful and emotionally rewarding, The World According to Fannie Davis will change the way you understand the lengths a mother will go to provide for her family, and the way those sacrifices resonate over time, offering not just a moving portrait of one American family, but also a new way of understanding Detroit.

Review- A moving memoir of a beloved mother see through the eyes of her youngest child. Bridgett Davis gives a full count of her mother's with help from other family members and gives her mother a moving tribute. I really enjoyed reading this memoir; it is full of interesting details, emotion, and compassion for the subject. Davis pours all her love and longing for her mother into this memoir. We get to see a very special time in Detroit's time before the state lottery was made legal and how Fannie Davis put food on the table and gave her children access to a better life than she had. Davis does snot hold back from her family's life and that honesty gives this memoir the freshest that makes it stand out from others in the genre. I recommend this book.

I give this a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I was given this book as a gift.