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Academy Award nominee and Golden Earth victor Taraji P. Henson reads her motivating and funny book about family, friends, the hustle necessary to make it from DC to Hollywood, and the pleasure of surviving in your own real truth. Using a sensibility that recalls her precious screen personas, including Yvette, Queenie, Shug, and the iconic Cookie from Empire, yet is all Taraji, the display screen celebrity writes of her people - the one she was created into and the one she created. She shares testimonies of her father, a Vietnam veterinarian who was bowed but never damaged by life's issues, and of her mom, who survived violence both in the home and on DC's volatile pavements. Here, too, she starts up about her experiences as a single mother, a journey some saw as a burden but she observed as a gift. Around the Way Young lady is also a basic actor's memoir where Taraji reflects on the world-class instructions she received at Howard School and the pitfalls that come with being a black celebrity. With laugh-out-loud humor and candor, she shares the issues and disappointments of the actor's journey and shows us that behind the red carpet moments, she is ever authentic. She actually is at heart simply a girl in pursuit of her dreams.
