Mom & Me & Mom

Maya Angelou

Apr 2013 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Maya Angelou

About this audiobook

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.

Ratings and reviews

I fear that my words will not be enough to describe the beauty of this book. The relationship Maya Angelou has with her mother ,Vivian Baxter is one that is inspiring and so rich. This is not just a good read but this book has been a spiritual treat for me . I want to be a mother like Vivian Baxter where my children are seen by me, where my mistakes in parenting are nothing in comparison to my love. Maya's Mom saw her from the beginning for who she was and who she could be. She refrained from judging her daughter but allowed her space to discover who she was without interfering but rather cheering her on. It has been such a treat . It's so beautiful, the love is tangible through each syllable that comes out of Maya. What an experience this book has been. Everybody needs to read it

Very poignant and personal story about relationships and especially her own experience with her mom. It's one of my favorite narrated books of Maya Angelou.

what a beautiful plot! That it gave me such a warm feeling wanting more...

About the author

Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman, she wrote numerous volumes of poetry, among them Phenomenal Woman, And Still I Rise, On the Pulse of Morning, and Mother. Maya Angelou died in 2014.