New Maya Angelou Memoir

The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her bestselling autobiographies. But now the 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.  When her marriage began to crumble, Vivian sent three-year-old Maya and her older brother away from California to live with their grandmother in Arkansas. The 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, she 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.

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