Bridgett M. Davis is an author and filmmaker whose work delves into the complexities of human experience, exploring intricate relationships and societal issues. Through her distinctive voice and insightful perspective, she enriches the literary landscape, offering readers thought-provoking and memorable narratives. Davis's approach to storytelling is marked by a profound examination of themes that resonate deeply, making her contributions to literature significant and compelling.
You don’t have to eat the same boring breakfast every day! Breakfast Around the World shows how you can quickly create the meals which the world wakes up to. Cocoa Snails from Hungary, Loco Moco from Hawaii, world-famous Irish Potato Pancakes, Swahili Doughnuts and the flatbreads of the Middle East. Clear, easy-to-follow, deliciously different breakfast recipes that you will want to try at any time of the day. (Bridget Davis)
As seen on the Today Show: This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s highlights "the outstanding humanity of black America" (James McBride). 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 home. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis's mother. Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, and granddaughter of slaves, Fannie ran her numbers business for thirty-four years, doing what it took to survive in a legitimate business that just happened to be illegal. She created a loving, joyful home, sent her children to the best schools, bought them the best clothes, mothered them to the highest standard, and when the tragedy of urban life struck, soldiered on with her stated belief: "Dying is easy. Living takes guts." 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" and provide a prosperous life for her family -- and how those sacrifices resonate over time.
It's 1986 and twenty-one-year-old Angie continues to mourn the death of her brilliant and radical sister Ella. On impulse, she travels from Detroit to the place where Ella tragically died four years before in Nigeria. She retraces her sister's steps, all the while navigating the chaotic landscape of a major African country on the brink of democracy careening toward a coup d'état. At the center of this quest is a love affair that upends everything Angie thought she knew about herself. Against a backdrop of Nigeria's infamous go-slow traffic as wild and surprising as a Fela lyric Angie begins to unravel the mysteries of the past, and opens herself up to love and life after Ella