{"product_id":"book-g8a1","title":"Daddy Was a Number Runner","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis 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).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDepression-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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1970, \u003ci\u003eDaddy Was a Number Runner\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the seminal novels of the black experience in America. \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e proclaimed it \"a most important novel.\"","brand":"Tantor","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49361587503408,"sku":"BDg8a1","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49361587601712,"sku":"ZEg8a1","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49361587667248,"sku":"ZMg8a1","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/g8a1-Square-cover.jpg?v=1780161928","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-g8a1","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}