Summary of Mariah Carey's The Meaning of Mariah Carey

By IRB Media

Get the Summary of Mariah Carey's The Meaning of Mariah Carey in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams - that contributed to the person I am today. Though there have been countless stories about me throughout my career and very public personal life, it's been impossible to communicate the complexities and depths of my experience in any single magazine article or a 10-minute television interview. And even then, my words were filtered through someone else's lens, largely satisfying someone else's assignment to define me.

This book is composed of my memories, my mishaps, my struggles, my survival, and my songs. Unfiltered. I went deep into my childhood and gave the scared little girl inside of me a big voice. I let the abandoned and ambitious adolescent have her say, and the betrayed and triumphant woman I became tell her side.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jan 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638150022

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Some of Mariah Carey’s earliest memories are of violent moments. Because of that, she’s always carried a heavy blanket with which she covers up large pieces of her childhood. But she can no longer stand the burden of that blanket and the silence of the little girl smothered beneath it.

#2

Mariah wrote The Meaning of Mariah to finally emancipate that scared little girl inside of her. It was time to let her tell her story exactly as she experienced it.

#3

The book is a testimony to the resilience of silenced little girls and boys everywhere: To insist that we believe them. To honor their experiences and tell their stories. To set them free.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

There was a time in her early childhood when Mariah didn’t believe she was worthy of being alive. Nowhere in her world did she see anyone who looked like her or reflected how she felt inside.

#2

She had a white mother and a Black father, with dark siblings, while she was light-skinned. They shared common blood, yet she felt like a stranger