Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: B0CP6DX73L ISBN13: 9798200920235 Release Date: May 2024 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Length: 258 Pages Weight: 0.90 lbs. Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.2" From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influence on her early life.If it weren't for Emma Johnson, Caryn Johnson would have never become Whoopi Goldberg. Emma gave her children the loving care and wisdom they needed to succeed in life, always encouraging them to be true to themselves. When Whoopi lost her mother in 2010--and then her older brother, Clyde, five years later--she felt deeply alone; the only people who truly knew her were gone.Emma raised her children not just to survive, but to thrive. In this intimate and heartfelt memoir, Whoopi shares many of the deeply personal stories of their lives together for the first time. Growing up in the projects in New York City, there were trips to Coney Island, the Ice