Download Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou PDF
Part of series: Maya Angelou's Autobiography Part 7
Key ideas from the book
- Angelou recounts the intimate story of her relationship with her mother, Vivian Baxter Johnson.
- The memoir explores the emotional effects of being sent away by her mother and feeling those effects long afterward.
- Johnson’s experiences included serving as an officer in the Merchant Marines and running a gambling business and rooming house.
- The book offers a family-centered perspective alongside Angelou’s accounts of her life in the wider world.
- Readers interested in memoir, family relationships, and the lives of Black women may find the account especially relevant.
About Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou
In this 2013 memoir, Maya Angelou turns to her relationship with her mother, Vivian Baxter Johnson, and to the lasting emotions surrounding her mother’s decision to send her away. The account brings an intimate family story into focus, distinct from Angelou’s accounts of her public life and encounters with influential figures.
Johnson’s life included work as an officer in the Merchant Marines and running a gambling business and rooming house. With its attention to family and the experience of a Black woman in early twentieth-century America, the memoir may interest readers of Angelou’s autobiographical writing, mother-daughter stories, and women’s history.
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