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<div><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Tecumseh District Library hosts Fannie Davis: Part Bookie, Banker & Mother on Zoom on Monday, March 28, 2022, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. </strong></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>During this virtual presentation, Michigan Notable author </strong><a href="http://bridgettdavis.com/bio/"><strong>Bridgett M. Davis </strong></a><strong>will discuss her award-winning memoir, </strong><a href="http://bridgettdavis.com/the-world-according-to-fannie-davis/"><strong><em>World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers</em></strong></a><strong><em>.</em></strong></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee, borrowed $100 from her brother to run a numbers racket out of her tattered apartment on Delaware Street, in one of Detroit's worst sections. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis's mother.</strong></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>A daughter's moving homage to an extraordinary parent, <em>The World According to Fannie Davis</em> is also the suspenseful, unforgettable story about the lengths to which a mother will go to "make a way out of no way" to provide a prosperous life for her family -- and how those sacrifices resonate over time. Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, granddaughter of slaves, Fannie Davis became more than a numbers runner: she was a kind of Ulysses, guiding both her husbands, five children and a grandson through the decimation of a once-proud city.</strong></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><a href="http://bridgettdavis.com/bio/"><strong>Bridgett M. Davis</strong></a><strong> is the author of the memoir, </strong><a href="http://bridgettdavis.com/the-world-according-to-fannie-davis/"><strong><em>The World According To Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers</em></strong></a><strong>, a <em>New York Times</em> Editors’ Choice, a 2020 Michigan Notable Book, and named a Best Book of 2019 by <em>Kirkus Reviews, BuzzFeed, NBC News and Parade Magazine. </em>She is writing the screenplay for the film adaptation of the book, which will be produced by Plan B Entertainment and released by Searchlight Pictures.</strong></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>She is author of two novels, </strong><a href="http://bridgettdavis.com/into-the-go-slow/"><strong><em>Into the Go-Slow</em></strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong>named a Best Book of 2014 by <em>The San Francisco Chronicle, </em>and </strong><a href="http://bridgettdavis.com/shifting-through-neutral/"><strong><em>Shifting Through Neutral</em></strong><strong>,</strong></a><strong> shortlisted for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award. Davis is also writer/director of the award-winning feature film </strong><a href="http://bridgettdavis.com/film-other-work/"><strong><em>Naked </em></strong></a><a href="http://bridgettdavis.com/film-other-work/"><strong>Acts</strong></a><strong>, now part of the permanent collection at Indiana University’s distinguished Black Film Archive.</strong></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><a href="http://bridgettdavis.com/bio/"><strong>Davis</strong></a><strong> is a Professor in the Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where she teaches creative, narrative and film writing.</strong></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Her essays have appeared most recently in <em>The New York Times, The Millions, Real Simple, the LA Times and O, the Oprah Magazine. A </em>graduate of Spelman College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, she lives in Brooklyn with her family.</strong></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>This special virtual event is made possible through the generosity of the </strong><a href="https://tecumsehlibrary.org/Pages/Index/141737/friends-of-the-library"><strong>Friends of Tecumseh District Library.</strong></a></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Call 423-2238 to sign up for this free virtual presentation or register online at </strong><a href="http://www.eventkeeper.com/code/ekform.cfm?curOrg=TECUMSEH&curID=544650&CFID=35286019&CFTOKEN=63ae3c062baeda90-11037449-D4AE-528A-5350B5D53C4BBCC3"><strong>www.eventkeeper.com/code/ekform.cfm?curOrg=TECUMSEH&curID=544650&CFID=35286019&CFTOKEN=63ae3c062baeda90-11037449-D4AE-528A-5350B5D53C4BBCC3</strong></a><strong>.</strong></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>This special event will also be streamed on Facebook Live, which can be viewed from the library’s Facebook page, </strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TecumsehDistrictLibrary"><strong>https://www.facebook.com/Tecumseh-District-Library-192148050127/.</strong></a></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Tecumseh District Library invites all to this special event. The library is located at 215 North Ottawa Street. For additional information, call Chuck Harpst, Reference/Local History Librarian, at the library, 423-2238. The library’s web site can be accessed at </strong><a href="http://www.tecumsehlibrary.org/"><strong>http://www.tecumsehlibrary.org</strong></a><strong>.</strong></span></span></div>
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