Mariah Carey has revealed the title and publication date of her long-awaited memoir.
Carey’s The Meaning of Mariah Carey will be published this fall by Henry Holt imprint Andy Cohen Books, Rolling Stone reports.
On a page for the book on Carey’s website, the singer wrote, “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 … Writing this memoir was incredibly hard, humbling and healing.”
The book will be co-written with Michaela Angela Davis, a journalist and celebrity stylist.
Carey’s memoir was officially announced last November when Andy Cohen Books revealed it would be among the first three books the imprint would publish. Carey had previously said in an interview that the book would detail her “alleged” emotional breakdown, as well as her experience working on Glitter, the 2001 film that was a notorious bomb with critics and filmgoers.
“This book is composed of my memories, my mishaps, my struggles, my survival and my songs. Unfiltered,” Carey said. “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.”
The Meaning of Mariah Carey is slated for publication on Sept. 29.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
