*Mom and Me and Mom *reveals the triumphs, struggles, and profound moments that shifted the balance of love and respect between Maya Angelou and the larger-than-life figure of her mother after a decade of separation.

*Mom and Me and Mom *reveals the triumphs, struggles, and profound moments that shifted the balance of love and respect between Maya Angelou and the larger-than-life figure of her mother after a decade of separation.

When her marriage had begun to crumble, Vivian Baxter sent three-year-old Maya and her older brother away from their California home to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas.

Mom and Me and Mom traces the story of a rich, rewarding, and fraught relationship, and its role in fostering the author's rise from immeasurable depths to reach impossible heights.

'An extraordinary tale'* SUNDAY TIMES *

'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault . . . There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISON

'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY