A review by mmarlborough
Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

5 ⭐️ alert!!!! This audiobook will haunt me and stay with me forever. There is good reason she got the Grammy for this narration, rightfully making her an EGOT winner. Highly recommend this as an audiobook due to her performance. 

This memoir takes the reader from Viola’s violent and poor childhood filled with racial bullying to her becoming the award winning actress we know today. Her life was filled with trauma and she didn’t know who she was for most of her life. The blurb says it “is a deep reflection, a promise, and a love letter of sorts to self. My hope is that my story will inspire you to light up your own life with creative expression and rediscover who you were before the world put a label on you.” She very much succeeded in this!!! 

I listen to a lot of celebrity memoirs as I love hearing them tell their own story. This one is one of the best of all time. Viola does not dwell in self-pity nor does she put blame onto others. She cracks herself open and is truthful through and through. I already respected her as an actress, but she is on a whole other level for me now. 

Full disclosure: this book may be very difficult for highly sensitive readers. Please check trigger warnings below.

✨Trigger Warnings: Domestic Abuse, Racism, Sexual Assault, Child Abuse, Death of Parent, Alcoholism, Abortion, Anima Death, Cancer, Infertility