Around the Way Girl av Taraji P. Henson

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From Taraji P. Henson, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe winner, and star of the award-winning film <i>Hidden Figures</i>, comes an inspiring and funny memoir—“a bona fide hit” (<i>Essence</i>)—about family, friends, the hustle required to make it in Hollywood, and the joy of living your own truth.<BR><BR>With a sensibility that recalls her beloved screen characters, including Katherine, the NASA mathematician, Yvette, Queenie, Shug, and the iconic Cookie from <i>Empire</i>, Taraji P. Henson writes of her family, the one she was born into and the one she created. She shares stories of her father, a Vietnam vet who was bowed but never broken by life’s challenges, and of her mother who survived violence both at home and on DC’s volatile streets. Here, too, she opens up about her experiences as a single mother, a journey some saw as a burden but which she saw as a gift.<BR><BR><i>Around the Way Girl</i> is also a classic actor’s memoir in which