Ebook: Mom & Me & Mom
Author: Angelou Maya
- Tags: African American authors, Authors American--20th century, Entertainers--United States, Families, Authors American, Entertainers, Autobiographie, Biographies, Angelou Maya -- Family, Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography, Entertainers -- United States -- Biography, African American authors -- Biography, Angelou Maya, United States, Angelou Maya -- 1928
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- City: New York;United States
- Language: English
- epub
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...