Mom & Me & MomRecommendations

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A poignant memoir about the great author's connection with her own mother.

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Maya Angelou's amazing life has been documented in her several popular autobiographies. But now, at long last, the great novelist opens up about her most intimate experience: her connection with her mother.

For the first time, Angelou shares her experiences as the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose small stature belied her larger-than-life presence—a presence that was missing for most of Angelou's childhood. When her marriage fell apart, Vivian famously brought her three-year-old daughter Maya and her elder brother to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. Angelou's subsequent sentiments of desertion lingered for years, but their reunion a decade later began a never-before-told narrative. Angelou dramatizes her years reuniting with her mother, whom she preferred to refer to simply as "Lady," in Mom & Me & Mom, exposing the important events that transformed their relationship's balance of love and respect.

Mom & Me & Mom delves on one of Maya Angelou's most rich, satisfying, and tumultuous relationships, examining the healing and love that developed between the two women over the course of their lives, the love that fueled her ascent from immeasurable depths to unimaginable heights.