(DONE) Please add Audible edition: Daddy Was a Number Runner

[Crystal]

Please add the Audible edition of Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether.

* Title: Daddy Was a Number Runner
* Author(s) name(s):

Louise Meriwether
James Baldwin (Foreword)
Nellie McKay (Afterword)
Karen Murray (Narrator)

I know Nellie McKay isn't listed on the Audible page or Kindle page but I'm currently listening to her lengthy afterword. Checked the ebook and was able to follow along, her name is listed there as the author of the afterword.

* ASIN: B0B3JVLSM6
* Publisher: Tantor Audio
* Publication date: June 21, 2022
* Format: Audible Audio
* Page count (is hours count rounded up for audiobooks): 8
* 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 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 are risks in everything from going to the movies to walking down the block, and her pragmatism eventually outweighs her hope; "We was all poor and Black and apt to stay that way, and that was that."

First published in 1970, Daddy Was a Number Runner is one of the seminal novels of the Black experience in America. The New York Times Book Review proclaimed it "a most important novel."


* Language: English

* Link to book page: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B3JVLSM6

Thank you!

[Crystal]

Normally wouldn't bump but this has been open since August 6. Thank you!

[Javier]

Added, praise removed from description.
Daddy Was a Number Runner

[Crystal]

Thanks! :)