Around the Way Girl
A Memoir
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Around the Way Girl
Narrated by:
Taraji P. Henson
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Narrated by:
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Taraji P. Henson
About this listen
From Taraji P. Henson, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe winner, and star of the award-winning film Hidden Figures and the 2023 film The Color Purple, comes an inspiring and funny memoir—“a bona fide hit” (Essence)—about family, friends, the hustle required to make it in Hollywood, and the joy of living your own truth.
With a sensibility that recalls her beloved screen characters, including Katherine, the NASA mathematician, Yvette, Queenie, Shug, and the iconic Cookie from Empire, 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.
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 how she chipped away, with one small role after another, at Hollywood’s resistance to give women, particularly women of color, meaty significant roles. 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 in this “inspiring account of overcoming adversity and a quest for self-discovery, written with vitality and enthusiasm” (Shelf Awareness).
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as well as listening to the audio and following along in my paperback copy.
taraji is inspiring spiritual and an amazing woman she has talent and truth and i enjoyed hearing things about how she goes with her career and how she feels with being a mother, dating and also the pros and cons of being a actress
Fantastic Inspiring for Women of all ages
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Really insightful and inspirational
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Scoops you off right into the centre of her life.
it's a Must
Awesome read great insight into Taraji
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happy the book was read by Taraji herself
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amazing
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