"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER
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"
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""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"
" The] latest, and most potent, of her serial autobiographies . . .
a] tough-minded, tenderhearted addition to Angelou's spectacular
canon."--"Elle"
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"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"
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"True to her style, Angelou's] writing cuts to the chase with
compression and simplicity, and there in the background is a
calypso smoothness, flurries and showers of musicality between the
moments of wickedness. . . . A tightly strung, finely tuned memoir
about life with her mother."--"Kirkus Reviews"
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"In this loving recollection of a complicated relationship,
Angelou for the first time details the mother-daughter journey to
reconciliation and unwavering connection and support. . . . Angelou
vividly portrays a spirited woman. . . . A] remarkable and deeply
revealing chronicle of love and healing."--"Booklist"
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"Written with her customary eloquence . . . follows in the
episodic style of Angelou's earlier volumes of autobiography,
pulling the reader along effortlessly. The lessons and the love
presented here will speak to those trying to make their way in the
world."--"Publishers Weekly
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"In straightforward style, "Mom & Me & Mom"dives deeply
into Angelou's complicated relationship with her mother. . . . At
84, Angelou shows few signs of slowing down."--"BookPage"
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