Mom & Me & Mom

Maya Angelou, perhaps best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning series of autobiographies, now turns her extraordinary talents to the singular relationship she shares with her beloved mother. As a young girl growing up in Stamps, Arkansas, and then San Francisco, Maya had an unshakable bond with her mother. But when Vivian abandoned her family at age three and didn't return for almost a decade, Maya found herself resenting Vivian's absence, sometimes even wishing that she was dead. It wasn't until Vivian sent for Maya after the death of her stepfather that the two finally reconnected--a reconciliation that would last through the decades and shape both their lives forevermore.