Nellie Y Mckay: 1 book
Daddy Was a Number Runner
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002
This modern classic is “a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood” in 1930s Harlem—with a forward 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...
