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Mariah Careys memoir opens with the great line: I refuse to acknowledge time, famously so.

Isnt that the way we remember things, anyway?

The Meaning of Mariah Carey

Credit: Andy Cohen Books

Her childhood is filled with danger, trauma, violence, fear and music.

Shereactsto the word urban every time she brings it up.

They belong to her.

In an early anecdote, the police are called to little Mariahs home after a violent scene.

And that night, I became less of a kid and more of a miracle.

By the end of the compelling if imperfectMeaning of Mariah Carey, you believe it.

Shes a miracle, a memoirist, a singer, a songwriter the girls got range.

Famously so.B+

The Meaning of Mariah Careyis available now.