Louise Meriwether - Daddy Was A Number Runner - 2002 [EN]

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"Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether" is a Fiction > General Fiction/Classics title in English, distributed as a EPUB file (0.8 MB). Written by Louise Meriwether. The book spans approximately 214 pages with 67,326 words. 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 ...

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CategoryBooks

LanguageEnglish (EN)

GenreFiction, African American Fiction, Literature, Historical

QualityEPUB

Size0.8 MB

Pages214

ArchivedAug 27, 2026

Synopsis

They spent most of their time playing the single action—betting on each number as it came out—and they stayed in the street all day until the last figure was out. I was glad Daddy was a number runner and not just hanging around the corners like these men. A number runner is something like Santa Claus and any day you hit the number is Christmas. A half-dozen boys standing in front of the drugstore were acting the fool, as usual, pretending they were razor fighting, their knickers hanging loose be