As the book makes clear, Fannie Davis, one of only two black women numbers bankers in Detroit, commanded respect rather than respectability. A cross-generational “love letter” to her mother that, Davis explains, tells “her story, and mine,” Bridgett Davis stresses and chronicles her mother’s fearlessness, determination, and willingness to transgress the narrow boundaries placed on black women and families to “make a way out of no way” and provide her family with “a good life at great expense” (p. The book details Bridgett Davis’s mother and father’s postwar migration from Nashville to Detroit, her mother’s subsequent multidecade career as a black female numbers runner and banker, and the author’s coming-of-age story. The World According to Fannie Davis is her first memoir: a highly engaging, well-researched page-turner that diversifies our understanding of black social history and labor by moving beyond the auto industry. The author, Bridgett Davis, is both a novelist and Fannie Davis’s youngest daughter.
The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers chronicles the Davis family’s involvement in “The Numbers,” or underground lottery, in Detroit from 1950s to the early 1990s. The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:īook Reviews 157 Bridgett M.
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