Book #7 of 2023. Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson. 

My favorite genre of non-fiction is definitely biographies.  I love getting the behind-the-facade view of fascinating people and Ms. Tyson did NOT disappoint. 

She tells her life story - the beautiful and the ugly. She starts with her parents’ humble Caribbean beginnings and their journeys to the US. We learn about her early years, teens and early adulthood. Then she starts her modeling and acting career.  

She was literally draaaagged into acting and I am so grateful for it. I couldn’t imagine the world of entertainment without her portrayals of Miss Jane Pittman, orRebecca (the mother in Sounder), or Sipsey in Fried Green Tomatoes, or her turn and Annalise Keating’s mother in Hoe to a get Away With Murder. 

She is an icon and I am truly grateful that she agreed to share her story with us. I feel it was a bonus to hear her share her life via audiobook.  Her narration was #chefskiss. This was an engrossing story and I finished it wishing I could could known her personally.   4/5

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