Mom and Me and Mom

Mom and Me and MomIn this treasured modern classic, one of America's most celebrated memoirists and poets, Maya Angelou, shares the deepest personal story of her life: the story of her relationship with her mother. 'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter Johnson: the first black woman officer in the Merchant Marines, purveyor of a gambling business

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she captures her transition from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood

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weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism

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