Around the Way Girl: A Memoir

Around the Way Girl: A Memoir by Taraji P. Henson    AudioBook  7 hours, 27 minutes     Hardback Book: 256 pages            

Excellent  book.    Heart-warming when she talks about her son, heart breaking when she talks about losing the love of her life and father of her son.     Taraji is a terrific actress and she tells the reader exactly how she made it in Hollywood.    She talks about the ups and downs in her life, her career and is brutally honest about her love-life.   She discusses the right things she has done in life and mistakes she has made along the way.    She gives the reader an insider’s view into her relationship with her father.   Her Dad loved her so much he kidnapped her when her mother wouldn’t let him see her during his addiction times, (his friend convinced him to take her back to her mother before he got in bad trouble) and when he was down on his luck in life through to his second marriage to cleaning himself up and to when he found God and became an ordained minister.  Her Dad was always there for her and helped her out of her relationship with her son’s father after he put his hands on her.   Her Dad walked in and was going to do damage until he saw his grandson watching all that was going on.    He couldn’t hurt the father of his grandson in front of the toddler, so, he took him out and had a deep discussion with him instead and from then on until death did them part, her father tried to teach and guide the younger man to do better and be better.    Taraji tells a good story here and does not make herself out to be anything but her own authentic self.      Excellent Book.    I would definetly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys biographies, who is a fan of her work or anyone who likes to read the true life struggles people go through to follow their destiny.   Well done, Taraji, you tell Boo Boo Kitty, Cookie!

 - Shirley J.