With laugh-out-loud humor and candor, she shares the challenges and disappointments of the actor’s journey and shows us that behind the red carpet moments, she is ever authentic.

Here, too, she opens up about her experiences as a single mother, a journey some saw as a burden but which she saw as a gift.Īround the Way Girl is also a classic actor’s memoir in which Taraji reflects on the world-class instruction she received at Howard University and how she chipped away, with one small role after another, at Hollywood's resistance to give women, particularly women of color, meaty significant roles. She shares stories of her father, a Vietnam vet who was bowed but never broken by life’s challenges, and of her mother who survived violence both at home and on DC’s volatile streets. Henson writes of her family, the one she was born into and the one she created. With a sensibility that recalls her beloved screen characters, including Katherine, the NASA mathematician, Yvette, Queenie, Shug, and the iconic Cookie from Empire, Taraji P. Henson, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe winner, and star of the award-winning film Hidden Figures, comes an inspiring and funny memoir-“a bona fide hit” ( Essence)-about family, friends, the hustle required to make it in Hollywood, and the joy of living your own truth.

2017 Audie Award Finalist for Autobiography/Memoirįrom Taraji P.

Around the Way Girl by Taraji P. Henson