Daddy Was a Number Runner

by Louise Meriwether (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1986

  $106.96

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $94.41

  The prospects for a 12-year-old girl growing up in Harlem in the 1930s are somewhat limited. As Francie Coffin learns, you either sell your body, wash other people's clothes, run poker games or have a baby every year. This is the story of her triumph of integrity in the world of ghetto life.