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![Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBMXFUZ1E9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--263c9808e8bc0003e0e20d0c1a28fd7df4219ae8/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Daddy%20Was%20a%20Number%20Runner.jpg)
240 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781558614420
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Feminist Press
Publication date: 01 December 2002
Description
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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240 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781558614420
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Feminist Press
Publication date: 01 December 2002
Description
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...