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Mom and Me and Mom

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    • Maya Angelou
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'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.'

So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter Johnson: the first black woman officer in the Merchant Marines, purveyor of a gambling business and rooming house, and mother to Maya Angelou, beloved and bestselling author I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.


'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA

Anyone who's read the classic, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, knows Maya Angelou was raised by her paternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. In Mom & Me & Mom, Angelou details what brought her mother to send her away and unearths the well of emotions Angelou experienced long afterward as a result. While Angelou's six autobiographies tell of her out in the world, influencing and learning from statesmen and cultural icons, Mom & Me & Mom shares the intimate, emotional story about her own family.

'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY

'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' TONI MORRISON

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  • Published: Apr 04 2024
  • 196 x 126mm
  • ISBN: 9780349017129
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Press Reviews

  • Viv Groskop

    Red
    Extraordinary . . . a jaw-dropper of a memoir
  • Barack Obama

    A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman
  • Bill Clinton

    The poems and stories she wrote . . . were gifts of wisdom and wit, courage and grace
  • Oprah Winfrey

    She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds
  • Toni Morrison

    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