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 to the heights.
