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Finding me / Viola Davis.

Davis, Viola, 1965- (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0063211092 : PAP
  • ISBN: 9780063211094 : PAP
  • ISBN: 9780063211094
  • ISBN: 0063211092
  • Physical Description: 355 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First Harper Large Print edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Ebony Magazine Publishing, Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Running -- My world -- Central Falls -- 128 -- Minefield -- My calling -- The sisterhood -- Secret, silent, shame -- The muse -- The starting block -- Being seen -- Taking flight -- The blooming -- Coming into me -- The wake-up -- Harnessing bliss -- There she is.
Summary, etc.:
"In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn't always see me. As I wrote [this book], my eyes were open to the truth of how our stories are often not given close examination. We are forced to reinvent them to fit into a crazy, competitive, judgmental world. So I wrote this for anyone running through life untethered, desperate and clawing their way through murky memories, trying to get some form of self-love. For anyone who needs reminding that a life worth living can only be born from radical honesty and the courage to shed facades and be ... you"--Back cover
Subject: Davis, Viola, 1965-
African American actresses > Biography.
African American women > Biography.
Self-realization in women > Biography.
Actors > United States > Biography.
Large type books.
Genre: Autobiographies.
Biographies.

Available copies

  • 3 of 4 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
  • 0 of 0 copies available at New Milford Public Library.

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