| Portion of title |
Daughter's search for identity through loss and love |
| Contents |
First word: Where we awaken -- Part one: Mother Figures. Original sin -- Bigmama's house -- After the fall -- Xernona and me -- The colors of us -- The woman in blue -- Girl on the bus -- Our matriarch -- Shape shifting -- Naming and claiming -- Part two: Chasing the dream. The mecca -- African spring -- The rookie -- Global citizen -- Orange County News -- My mother, reprise -- Part three: The way home. Crashing -- Boy wonder -- True north -- Love and politics -- Motherhood -- What care forgot -- American history -- The mouth of babes -- A reckoning. |
| Abstract |
The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid and deeply personal story of her mother's abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades. |
| Abstract |
Los Angeles in 1967 was deeply segregated. Born from an affair and an unplanned pregnancy, Michelle was raised largely by her father and his family, and grew up with no knowledge of her mother. Here she tells the candid and deeply personal story of her mother's abandonment-- and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades. Now an award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning, Michelle has been a witness to history as well as a participant in it. What emerges is a story about the secrets we keep, the secrets we share, and the secrets that make us who we are. -- adapted from jacket |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies. |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| ISBN | 9780063220430 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0063220431 (hardcover) |
