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Around the Way Girl
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Taraji P. Henson
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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Publisher's Summary
2017 Audie Award Finalist for Autobiography/Memoir
Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Taraji P. Henson reads her inspiring and funny book about family, friends, the hustle required to make it from DC to Hollywood, and the joy of living in your own truth.
With a sensibility that recalls her beloved screen characters, including Yvette, Queenie, Shug, and the iconic Cookie from Empire, yet is all Taraji, the screen actress writes of her families - 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 in the 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 she saw as a gift.
Around the Way Girl is also a classic actor's memoir in which Taraji reflects on the world-class instruction she received at Howard University and the pitfalls that come with being a black actress. With laugh-out-loud humor and candor, she shares the challenges and disappointments of the actor's journey and shows us that behind the red carpet moments, she is ever authentic. She is at heart just a girl in pursuit of her dreams.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-08-2020
life changing
what an amazing insight into the industry and a truthful story with inspiring messages and themes. thank you for sharing this with the world !
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- Anonymous User
- 29-04-2019
Amazing amazing amazing
I absolutely loved this booked so authentic and real!! As soon as it finished wanted more and more chapters.
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