Book Summary: Finding Me: A Memoir
- Taliah Aneesah
- Nov 2, 2022
- 2 min read
Finding Me By Viola Davis | Amazon
Finding Me is the memoir written by Golden Globe, Emmy, Tony, and Academy Award winner, Viola Davis. Viola uses her memoir to share how she overcame her struggle with poverty and self- identity to truly find herself. She details a childhood filled with poverty, alcoholism, and abuse. She witnessed her father regularly physically abuse her mother. Viola reflects on being bullied as a child due to her skin tone and the atrocious smell of urine from her clothing. The book is filled with Viola recalling memories of the invisibility she felt as a black girl and as a poor girl. Even as she aged she still saw herself as the bullied eight year old. She knew that young girl needed to heal.
Viola describes working four jobs while going to college full time and performing in various theater productions. She continued to overcome obstacles during her college years as she had her whole childhood. Throughout the book, Viola details her earliest movie roles while also attending therapy and still trying to find home. Viola describes the tragic experience of witnessing her dad die of cancer. Yet just as she had in all other aspects of her life she found a lesson in it. She came to know “the purpose of life is worth living”. Although Viola was nominated for an Oscar and won other awards, she still didn’t receive significant acting roles. She felt invisible until Shonda Rhimes gave her a chance. Viola goes in detail about how her leading roles in How to Get Away with Murder and Fences liberated her and healed her. She finally realized she was enough. She had finally found Viola. This memoir is an excellent read about overcoming insurmountable obstacles to become the person you were always meant to be.
Book Details
Pub Date: April 26, 2022
ISBN: 978-0063037328
Page Count: 304
Publisher: HarperOne; 1st edition
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