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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.

I believe we have all been shaped by our relationship with our moms. I wouldn't be who I am today if it weren't for her, and the same goes for Maya Angelou.

Reading this book, we can see where she comes from, and it gives a different angle to who she is.

This book also made me think about my own mother, and made me appreciate all the more the relation I have with her.

And to finish, it looks like Vivian Baxter was a fantastic person. I would have loved to meet her.

Leaving on a Seafari tomorrow between these two cities. Will drop the book somewhere in between.

I read the book in Myanmar. I read it because i've been travelling for so a long time already and I miss my mom, thats the reason why it stars in my eyes.
Tanja from Switzerland