Angelou, Maya

Mom & me & mom / Maya Angelou. - Great Britain : Virago Press, 2014. - 195 p. ; 18 cm.

In this book, Angelou details what brought her mother to send her away, and unearths the well of emotions she experienced long afterward as a result. For the first time, she 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 the author'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. Their reunion a decade later began a story that has never before been told.

9781844089154


English Literature.
African Americans.
Autobiography.

818.54 / ANG