MOM & ME & MOM

u003cbu003eu003ciu003eNEW YORK TIMESu003c/iu003e BESTSELLERu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eThe 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.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e 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 u003ciu003eMom & Me & Momu003c/iu003e, 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.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e Delving into one of her life's most rich, rewarding, and fraught relationships, u003ciu003eMom & Me & Momu003c/iu003e 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.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eu003cbu003ePraise for u003ciu003eMom & Me & Momu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003ciu003e u003c/iu003eu003cbru003e“u003ciu003eMom & Me & Momu003c/iu003e is delivered with Angelou's 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 Angelou's forgiving design. As an account of reconciliation, this little book is just revealing enough, and pretty u003cbu003eirresistibleu003c/bu003e.”—u003ciu003eThe Washington Postu003c/iu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e “Moving . . . a u003cbu003eremarkableu003c/bu003e portrait of two courageous souls.”—u003ciu003ePeopleu003c/iu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003e“[The] latest, and u003cbu003emost potent, of her serial autobiographiesu003c/bu003e . . . [a] tough-minded, tenderhearted addition to Angelou's spectacular canon.”—u003ciu003eElleu003c/iu003eu003cbru003e u003ciu003e u003c/iu003eu003cbru003e “Mesmerizing . . . Angelou has u003cbu003ea way with words that can still dazzle usu003c/bu003e, and with her mother as a subject, Angelou has a near-perfect muse and mystery woman.”—u003ciu003eEssenceu003c/iu003eu003cbru003e u003ciu003e u003c/iu003eu003cbru003e “True to her style, [Angelou's] writing cuts to the chase with compression and simplicity, and there in the background is a calypso smoothness, flurries and showers of musicality between the moments of wickedness. . . . A u003cbu003etightly strung, finely tunedu003c/bu003e memoir about life with her mother.”—u003ciu003eKirkus Reviewsu003c/iu003eu003cbru003e u003ciu003e u003c/iu003eu003cbru003e “In this loving recollection of a complicated relationship, Angelou for the first time details the mother-daughter journey to reconciliation and unwavering connection and support. . . . Angelou vividly portrays a spirited woman. . . . [A] u003cbu003eremarkable and deeply revealingu003c/bu003e chronicle of love and healing.”—u003ciu003eBooklistu003c/iu003eu003cbru003e u003ciu003e u003c/iu003eu003cbru003e “Written with her customary eloquence . . . follows in the episodic style of Angelou's earlier volumes of autobiography, u003cbu003epulling the reader along effortlesslyu003c/bu003e. The lessons and the love presented here will speak to those trying to make their way in the world.”—u003ciu003ePublishers Weeklyu003cbru003eu003c/iu003eu003cbru003e“In straightforward style, u003ciu003eMom & Me & Momu003c/iu003e u003cbu003edives deeplyu003c/bu003e into Angelou's complicated relationship with her mother. . . . At 84, Angelou shows few signs of slowing down.”—u003ciu003eBookPageu003c/iu003e