Vivian was not your typical mother, but, she came through for Angelou when she needed her most once they reunited. Their relationship went from contentious to loving. Angelou honestly portrays how “Lady” upended her comfortable world and the abandonment issues that plagued her. The book speaks to how Vivian went from being called “Lady” to being “Mom”. Mom & Me & Mom explores Angelou’s complicated relationship with her mother Vivian. 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.ĭelving 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. 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. 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. About the Bookįor 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. The books are stand alone, but that does not mean that you shouldn’t read each and every one of them. She wrote it so that each book reflects a snapshot of one aspect of her life and how that impacted her. You do not need to read the series in any kind of order. Mom & Me & Mom is Maya Angelou’s seventh and final book in her autobiographical series. She just didn’t need to use her voice to flaunt her intelligence – she let her words speak for themselves. Don’t let simplicity fool you, Maya Angelou was exceptionally bright. She had a simple way of speaking and her books are in the same tone.
If you have ever had the privilege of hearing the late poet laureate speak, you witnessed something amazing.
She is an inspiration in every sense of the word. The series would not be complete without a book by Maya Angelou. Mom & Me & Mom is the second book in our monthly series featuring black authors.
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