Daddy was a number runner : a novel /
A new edition of Louise Meriwether's classic novel about a young Black girl's coming-of-age in Harlem in the 1930s, featuring new writing celebrating Meriwether's life and work. This edition contains the full text of the novel, as well as its foreword by James Baldwin and afterword by...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Feminist Press at the City University of New York,
[2025].
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| Edition: | 55th anniversary edition. |
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| Summary: | A new edition of Louise Meriwether's classic novel about a young Black girl's coming-of-age in Harlem in the 1930s, featuring new writing celebrating Meriwether's life and work. This edition contains the full text of the novel, as well as its foreword by James Baldwin and afterword by Nellie McKay, now expanded to include reactions from newer generations of Black women writers like Bridgett M. Davis, Farah Griffin and Deesha Philyaw, as well as two newly available interviews on Meriwether's legacy of writing, community and activism. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 297 pages : 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781558613522 1558613528 |