NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A moving memoir about the legendary
author's relationship with her own mother.
Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick!
The story of Maya Angelou's extraordinary life has been chronicled in
her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the
legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her
relationship with her mother.
For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being
the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size
belied her larger-than-life presence--a presence absent during much of
Angelou's early life. When her marriage began to crumble, Vivian
famously sent three-year-old Maya and her older brother away from their
California home to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. The
subsequent feelings of abandonment stayed with Angelou for years, but
their reunion, a decade later, began a story that has never before been
told. In Mom & Me & Mom, Angelou dramatizes her years reconciling with
the mother she preferred to simply call "Lady," revealing the profound
moments that shifted the balance of love and respect between them.
Delving into one of her life's most rich, rewarding, and fraught
relationships, Mom & Me & Mom explores the healing and love that
evolved between the two women over the course of their lives, the love
that fostered Maya Angelou's rise from immeasurable depths to reach
impossible heights.
Praise for Mom & Me & Mom
"Mom & Me & Mom is delivered with Angelou's trademark good humor and
fierce optimism. If any resentments linger between these lines, if lives
are partially revealed without all the bitter details exposed, well,
that is part of Angelou's forgiving design. As an account of
reconciliation, this little book is just revealing enough, and pretty
irresistible."--The Washington Post
"Moving . . . a remarkable portrait of two courageous
souls."**--People
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"[The] latest, and most potent, of her serial autobiographies . . .
[a] tough-minded, tenderhearted addition to Angelou's spectacular
canon."--Elle*
"Mesmerizing . . . Angelou has a way with words that can still dazzle
us, and with her mother as a subject, Angelou has a near-perfect muse
and mystery woman."--Essence
