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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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An homage to the author's mother relates how she cleverly played Detroit's illegal lottery in the 1970s to support the family while creating a loving, joyful home and mothering her children to the highest standards.
"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...
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Thirty years ago Julia Gooden's brother Ben was abducted from the room they shared. Try as she might to recall any clue or detail, there is a black hole where Julia's memories of that terrible event should be. Now a crime reporter at a Detroit newspaper Julia tries to give others the closure she's never found, despite her own guilt and grief. Then, on the anniversary of Bens disappearance, Julia's two-year-old son, Will, is snatched from his bed--...
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