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Mom & me & mom / Maya Angelou.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400066117 (hc) :
- Physical Description: x, 201 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, c2013.
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| Subject: | Angelou, Maya > Family. African American authors > Biography. Authors, American > 20th century > Biography. Entertainers > United States > Biography. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | 818.5409 Angel | 31681002674521 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The celebrated author shares the intimate story of her relationship with her mother, relating the events that prompted her mother to send young Angela to Arkansas to live with her grandmother and the complicated fallout that shaped their family life. - Baker & Taylor
The celebrated author ofI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings shares the intimate story of her relationship with her mother, a first black woman officer in the Merchant Marines and a purveyor of a gambling business and rooming house, relating the events that prompted her mother to send young Angela away and the complicated fallout that shaped their family life. (This book was featured in a previous issue of Forecast .) 150,000 first printing. - Random House, Inc.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠A moving memoir about the legendary authorâs relationship with her own mother.
Emma Watsonâs Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick!
The story of Maya Angelouâs 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 presenceâa presence absent during much of Angelouâs 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 âLady,â revealing the profound moments that shifted the balance of love and respect between them.
Delving into one of her lifeâs 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 Angelouâs rise from immeasurable depths to reach impossible heights.
Praise for Mom & Me & Mom
âMom & Me & Mom is delivered with Angelouâs trademark good humor and fierce optimism. If any resentments linger between these lines, if lives are partially revealed without all the bitter details exposed, well, that is part of Angelouâs forgiving design. As an account of reconciliation, this little book is just revealing enough, and pretty irresistible.ââThe Washington Post
âMoving . . . a remarkable portrait of two courageous souls.ââPeople
â[The] latest, and most potent, of her serial autobiographies . . . [a] tough-minded, tenderhearted addition to Angelouâs spectacular canon.ââElle
âMesmerizing . . . Angelou has a way with words that can still dazzle us, and with her mother as a subject, Angelou has a near-perfect muse and mystery woman.ââEssence
