Daddy Was a Number Runner - Louise Meriwether

[Luke]

Daddy Was a Number Runner, Louise Meriwether, 1970, United States, NOVEL

"...Francie's Harlem is a powerful, pent-up place, where dreams and good people are changed and destroyed, a neighborhood where strength and beauty, love and friendship, all try to grow like plants without soil or water. And for Francie, during the year she turns from twelve to thirteen, living in Harlem means exchanging her longing for the white-hatted cowboy in the movies for a feeling of kinship with the Indians and a realization of what it means to be black and female in the United States."

(E.B., p. 123)

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