Finding Me: A Memoir Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Viola Davis (Author, Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

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Narrated by Viola Davis

In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever.

This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn’t always see me.

As I wrote Finding Me, my eyes were open to the truth of how our stories are often not given close examination. We are forced to reinvent them to fit into a crazy, competitive, judgmental world. So I wrote this for anyone running through life untethered, desperate and clawing their way through murky memories, trying to get to some form of self-love. For anyone who needs reminding that a life worth living can only be born from radical honesty and the courage to shed facades and be . . . you.

Finding Me 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.

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9 hours and 15 minutes
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Viola Davis
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Viola Davis
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April 26 2022
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English
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HarperAudio
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B09F51F1ZH
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	9 hours and 15 minutes
Author	Viola Davis
Narrator	Viola Davis
Audible.ca Release Date	April 26 2022
Publisher	HarperAudio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B09F51F1ZH
Best Sellers Rank	#60 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #2 in Self-Esteem (Books) #2 in Self-Esteem (Audible Books & Originals) #3 in Entertainer

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Terra Nicolle

phenomenal

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 12, 2023

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She is so beautiful, pure, honest and courageous!
It was a fast easy read!
Recommend for anyone who is trying to overcome their past and live a meaningful life, which is all of us.

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omaima rizqy

Amazing book

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 9, 2023

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I read the book within my vacations at the beach. The writing keeps you captivated from the beginning to the end. I even had to slow down while reading it as I didn't want to fiosh it before the end of my vacations ! I was really touched by Viola' story. We can feel her humility through all the book.
Her story is truly inspiring, it helps you to make you understand the struggles for the black artistes, the poverty ( the real one), the different challenges with family, the inequities , the violence, the sadness but also it gives you hope, it makes you believe in a better future where love wins and that dreams can be achieved with faith, perseverance and hard work.
Thank you Viola for humbely sharing your story.

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Janice

gripping read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 26, 2023

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This was hard to put down.

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learning a lot

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 10, 2023

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important to read

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Sekinat

Looks like NEW

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 3, 2023

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I liked the fact that it looked like new

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Wendy Burton

Gobsmacked

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 10, 2023

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I love her even more after reading her memoir! What a life! She is truly someone who has lifted herself up and deserves always to be center stage! Brilliant!

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Powerful and Awakening to Me

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 19, 2022

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Viola Davis has been a favorite of mine since I first watched her on Law and Order SVU series. I have felt a kinship to her since that first time seeing her. She blew me away in How to Get Away With Murder. After reading her book, the kinship really exploded. I felt like she is my sister. I could relate in so many ways. I have such a higher love and appreciation for her now. She gave me so much strength to really believe in yourself and do not rely on others to tell you who you are. You need to check in with your younger self to ensure that you are being your true self. Never apologize for who you are or what you went through because your past does not define you and has created me to be who I am today . "The best messages I got from this book is that you do not let where you start define where you will end up. Be proud of who you are. Everything you need is already inside you. Loved it, loved it, absolutely loved it!!!"

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max druker

A meaningful life

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 4, 2022

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Very moving description of important events in her life. Definitely worth the read

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James

There she is

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 26, 2022

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As soon as I heard the news all those months ago that Viola was releasing a book, I jumped at the chance of pre-ordering. After watching her numerous career defining performances over the years in Ma Raineys Black Bottom, HTGAWM, Fences, she opens up a chapter that is not always so accessible to the public. In ‘Finding Me’, we are reminded that this woman is not only one of the greatest actors of all time, but a truly courageous survivor. Congrats on everything, Viola!

61 people found this helpful

Oprah was right

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 1, 2022

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This is a life changing read - real, raw, deeply moving and profoundly wise. If you need a wake up call, some perspective on life - to help you see all the opportunity, ease, potential and power you are not leveraging - read this. I read it in one sitting.

I am in awe of the strength it must have taken Viola not just to survive her early life, but to retell it. This story goes deep into the unimaginable terror, pain and darkness she faced daily throughout childhood, and her immense years long struggle to transform herself and her life into one of love and light. It's so inspiring, so beautiful. It makes me see my own life very differently.

Thank you for sharing your "hero's journey" Viola. You should be so proud.

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Robert ‘Bob’ Macespera

A good book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 17, 2022

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Viola Davis has become one of the most respected actors of hers and possibly any other generation. Still in her mid-fifties, she's won all possible awards, not only in cinema but in the theatre and TV, and has made 91 movies to date, yet she does have indeed a long career ahead of her.
With a non-conventional look, she started being often cast as the dull public servant (Traffic and Syriana), teacher (Doubt) or the repudiated girlfriend (Out of Sight). She exploded in The Help, a very good movie crowded with excellent actresses and magnificent performances. Yet the best bit of that film is, by and large, Davis' constant and restrained pain, even if the Oscar in that one went to the wrong actress. But from that moment Viola started carrying the pictures, yet never leaving completely characters coming from the plot's sidelines; or, as she tells it quite funnily in this book, it took her almost 20 years (until "How to get away with murder") to have a husband and a lover in the same movie, something almost all white actors, men and women, do have early in their careers. But excellent works in cinema, as well as in TV and theater, made her a star.
When the book was announced months ago it was a nice surprise. The woman we love to love on the screen will tell her life. And now, down to matters, how good is the book?
It is good, sincere, shocking and well written. Ms Davies has pulled no stops and she does tell the poverty (or "po" i.e. below poverty, as her family called it), the sexual abuses, the family dramas and a painfully slow ascent to Hollywood stardom. The first half of the book is the best. The appalling conditions of a household plagued with violence, alcohol abuse and incest are sometimes a hard read, but the author keeps us in line. There's always an anecdote to lighten the text - the ‘bullfrogs’ and some characters around the family; and these are very welcome.
Then comes the "call" to the stage and a slow progression to the top. Ms Davies never ceases to be star-struck, as when she 's invited to George Clooney's house in Italy or when she's so overwhelmed that she acts merely silly in front of Meryl Streep the first time they met. This part, the ascent to stardom, is good, but a tad conventional - there’s less passion and the tale is more a Hollywood chronicle. However, thatnks to the author's warmth, the text progresses well and in the end we finish the read closer to the writer and at the same time wanting to know more about her.
On the bad side? Not much. Too many references on money and salaries. Ms Davies tells us how much she made at every single step of the ladder. Also, the book is written by an actor (and a very good one) and often a producer, but we read little of the process of the movies beyond the audition (and the salary), and many important pictures, directors and fellow actors are not mentioned beyond a tiny anecdote, if that. We expected a bit more than gossip or superficial comments and more from a privileged view of the movie business.
But in the end, it is a good book by a wonderful actor and an even better even human being.
A side note. Apart from an autobiography, this book is, to these eyes, an obvious cry to the Governments and specifically to that of the USA. It is appalling and unjust and simply inadmissible, that a family of six children has to suffer as Ms Davies did: at sub-zero temperatures in a small and deranged flat, rats-infested, without electricity, warm water, or often without water at all because the pipes froze and blocked for days at a time. And this did not happen in Dickensian days but in the mid-seventies and only a handful of miles away from the New York of Wall Street and Park Avenue. Capitalism is the only economic system that works. Fact. But not everything can be left to the "invisible hand" and the powers of the market. The states, starting with the more powerful ones, cannot have citizens, whole families, living in those conditions and must have in place a social security system in place, effective enough so parts of their populations do not starve or freeze to death. Viola Davis’ story is that of her family as well as of many families suffering the same today. And that's as much inadmissible as it is avoidable.

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Meldabird

Wow!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 18, 2022

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Over the years Viola has truly grown on me.

Not only is she such a gifted actress, but she has to be by far one of THE most eloquent public speakers, with such a natural gift for words. I could listen to her all day long.

When I found out she was going to write a memoir I couldn’t wait as I knew she would write something special.

Now, dear reader, in biographies there is honesty (where there is an element of gloss to make you look good) and there is HONESTYY (no holds barred to the point you are putting your soul on the floor). Viola is the latter. My jaw literally hit the floor many times.

I feel awful, as there must of been many young people like Viola that I went to school with who looked practically neglected, but they are the ones who triumphed as they were exposed from a young age to the struggles and hard-knocks of life.

I want to say thank you to Viola for sharing your gifts so generously with the world, and showing a side many don’t see. Thank you for your vulnerability, as there are many people out there struggling, and you have shown there is a way out.

10 people found this helpful

Afreeka

Beautifully raw!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 2, 2022

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"Finding Me" is a story of hope, survival and acceptance of oneself. Viola takes us through her childhood right to her present and hides nothing from us, I cried with her, sympathised with her, rooted for her, was excited for her, everything!

This book is for anyone who wants to be more, who wants to live and thrive. It's for people of all races but especially for black girls/women, you are beautiful, you are worthy, you are desirable, you are smart, you are YOU. Viola encourages you to find yourself.

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