Daddy Was a Number Runner (Contemporary Classics by Women)

by JamesBaldwin (Introduction), Louise Meriwether (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $23.44

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $3.44

  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.