Mom and Me and Mom
- Author Maya Angelou
- Narrator Maya Angelou
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Run Time 4 hours and 1 minute
- Format Audio
- Genre Autobiography: writers, Biography and non-fiction prose, Biography: general, Biography: writers.
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What to expect
Mom and Me and Mom reveals the triumphs, struggles, and profound moments that shifted the balance of love and respect between Maya Angelou and the larger-than-life figure of her mother after a decade of separation.
When her marriage had begun to crumble, Vivian Baxter sent three-year-old Maya and her older brother away from their California home to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas.
Mom and Me and Mom traces the story of a rich, rewarding, and fraught relationship, and its role in fostering the author's rise from immeasurable depths to reach impossible heights.
'An extraordinary tale' SUNDAY TIMES
'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault . . . There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISON
'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY
When her marriage had begun to crumble, Vivian Baxter sent three-year-old Maya and her older brother away from their California home to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas.
Mom and Me and Mom traces the story of a rich, rewarding, and fraught relationship, and its role in fostering the author's rise from immeasurable depths to reach impossible heights.
'An extraordinary tale' SUNDAY TIMES
'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault . . . There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISON
'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY
Critics Review
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Extraordinary . . . a jaw-dropper of a memoir
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A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman
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The poems and stories she wrote . . . were gifts of wisdom and wit, courage and grace
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She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds
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She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents – used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate
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