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She may affect me with her every other book, but I am sure this book will always have an important place in my heart. This is an excellent autobiography. So, I kept reading until my eyes burned. I was only able to sleep after I promised myself to read the rest as soon as I woke up.

Toggle navigation. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother. 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. As an account of reconciliation, this little book is just revealing enough, and pretty irresistible. Angelou has a way with words that can still dazzle us , and with her mother as a subject, Angelou has a near-perfect muse and mystery woman. A tightly strung, finely tuned memoir about life with her mother.

Maya Angelou and her mother, Vivian Baxter. Although it took years, Angelou and her mother eventually developed a close and loving relationship. Random House hide caption. Maya Angelou has lived a life so expansive and extraordinary that, even after seven autobiographies, she still has more stories to tell.

Rate this book. 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.