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. During this virtual presentation, Michigan Notable author Bridgett M. Davis will discuss her award-winning memoir, World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers. 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. A daughter's moving homage to an extraordinary parent, The World According to Fannie Davis 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. Bridgett M. Davis is the author of the memoir, The World According To Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers, a New York Times Editors' Choice, a 2020 Michigan Notable Book, and named a Best Book of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews, BuzzFeed, NBC News and Parade Magazine. 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. She is author of two novels, Into the Go-Slow, named a Best Book of 2014 by The San Francisco Chronicle, and Shifting Through Neutral, shortlisted for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award. Davis is also writer/director of the award-winning feature film Naked Acts, now part of the permanent collection at Indiana University's distinguished Black Film Archive. Davis 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. Her essays have appeared most recently in The New York Times, The Millions, Real Simple, the LA Times and O, the Oprah Magazine. A graduate of Spelman College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, she lives in Brooklyn with her family. This special virtual event is made possible through the generosity of the Friends of Tecumseh District Library. Call 423-2238 to sign up for this free virtual presentation or register online at www.eventkeeper.com/code/ekform.cfm?curOrg=TECUMSEH&curID=544650&CFID=35286019&CFTOKEN=63ae3c062baeda90-11037449-D4AE-528A-5350B5D53C4BBCC3. This special event will also be streamed on Facebook Live, which can be viewed from the library's Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/Tecumseh-District-Library-192148050127/. 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 http://www.tecumsehlibrary.org.