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