At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness

Excellent Book Hana. As one who knew your Father and a few of the members of your family personally, your book brought back so many memories. You did a great job of communicating a Legacy of Life Lessons. You have inspired me to start making recordings for my Granddaughter❤️

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This story is very well written by Ali's daughter Hana. She has so much information about her father one of the greatest boxers in history. I grew up watching boxing with my Father. I was a little girl sitting by his side on the couch while the matches from Madison Square Garden were on TV. I learned to admire these great men that would fight in the ring and take such punishments. I still watch boxing now in my later years. Muhammad Ali was a great father to his children according to this book. He loved them more than anything. Most little girls have a hero that is there Daddy. I think Hana and Laila had a great hero. I was sad when he became taken over with Parkinsons. My own husband had that it is terrible. The day of his death touched me because My Daddy , my hero did love to see him box. I think the book is great in may ways. A true family store of a great athelte.

This book was hauntingly beautiful. It’s seriously one of the best memoirs I’ve ever read. Hana is such a great and descriptive writer, she pulls you into that magical world she lived as a child. I always wondered what it would be like to grow up as the daughter of someone as iconic as Ali. Now I know! She told it ALL. Great book.

I loved listening to this audio book about Muhammad Ali. I knew he was a kind, gentle confident soul, but was unaware of how much he touched everyone's life. He wasn't just the greastest in boxing, but one of the greatest human being and best representative of Islam.

Just finished reading this and couldnt seem to put it down. Not only is it an intimate glimpse of one of the world's greatest athletes but it is also a tender, honest recounting of a childhood growing up with complex families. Lessons of love, forgiveness and growing strong abound in this superbly crafted tale. Top notch and beautiful photos too!

Wonderfully written book showing the softer side of The Greatest boxer of our lifetime. The author , his daughter Hana, recalls incidents from her childhood and memories of her father's friends who include celebrities from Hollywood and politicians and fellow sportsmen.

This superb work serves as a great and yet more personal counterpoint to the Clare Lewins-directed I am Ali documentary of 2014 (Passion Pictures). Ali began documenting the interactions with his kids in the late 1970s, in the form of audio recordings that covered both telephone conversations and daily household interactions, ranging from the seemingly trivial business of capturing their daily chores to the more meaningful direction he would give them around life's lessons and his own spiritual and religious belief system. What sounds routine becomes both an audio testimony of his values and beliefs and has become a unique album of memories for the kids - and especially for Hana Yasmeen Ali, his first daughter from his third marriage, to Veronica Porche. Given Ali's passing in 2016, Hana Ali uses the audio recordings to both pick up in more detail where the documentary ends and to both reflect on her father, her privileged and fractured childhood and more specifically, the marriage between her father and the much younger Veronica. The book serves three purposes: it explores the Ali personality by richly conveying the internal Ali and the deep soulfulness of his relationship with his children. Secondly, it allows Hana to bring to closure the relationship with her father, which one always felt from her various documentary appearances over the years, was certainly one of profound love and emotional proximity. Whilst many or all of his kids are bright enough to understand the trade offs and intent that he brought to life, it is Hana who has best captured the deep spirituality, selflessness, emotional need and sheer belief in higher love that represents the true Ali. Finally, she captures what in her view, is the true nature of the love and pain that sits at the heart of Ali's relationship with Veronica. Often cast as the ice-cold beauty queen who broke up a happy relationship between Ali and second wife Belinda, this book reveals a far deeper complexity. Around the sheer force of passion that Ali uses to win over 19-year-old Veronica in the US and then in Zaire before the Foreman fight in 1974, the true state of Ali's marriage to Belinda and the pain Veronica undergoes given Ali's emotional neglect and infidelity across the late 1970s and perhaps even into the early 1980s. The most profound sections center around the existence of a cache of love letters written by Ali over the course of the down slope of the marriage, letters that only get discovered by mother and daughter at a Los Angeles storage facility in 2012. The letters have never found their way to Veronica and graphically and poetically reveal the extent of Ali's loss at Veronica turning her back on him and his efforts to win her back, efforts she does not even get to know about at the time and only finds out about some thirty years later. Could Ali's, Veronica's and Hana's lives have been different had these letters found their way to the Veronica? Who knows, but for Hana, it provides a profoundly emotional opportunity to examine the true nature of her parents relationship and the theme of lost love. That she comes out of all this - like her sister and siblings - as such a realistic, loving, forgiving, funny and balanced person speaks volumes about the spirit of forgiveness and love that sits at the heart of Ali's complex psyche and genetic coding. Whilst the book is effectively a profound love letter between father and daughter, it is also rich with often hilarious anecdotes about the light-hearted and surreal side of Ali and about Hana's extrovert and rambuctious childhood behaviours. The book features a series of excellent vignettes, ranging from somewhat horny aunts (who would not be with a brother-in-law like Muhammad Ali), mildly alcoholic governesses, loving Hancock Park neighbours and world-famous celebrities who routinely show up at the homes, like Prince, Travolta and Michael Jackson. That he signs off on each voice note with his name, a home location address and date code gives each one an amusing and Star Trek, stardate-like specificity. He created these for posterity and to ensure that every missed presence in his earlier children's lives was somehow resolved with interactions that left no confusion around the people he wanted his children to become. As more and more work will over the years examine the Ali legacy, including new books and multi-episode documentaries in the works, one hopes that this powerful volume sits at the heart of the true Ali essence and how he gets remembered - and by someone so close to him and who captures much of his essence in her own winning personality. More than anything for one own's life, one is left with the lesson to love with an open heart and to ensure that the love between parents and children is there, irrespective of the faults on either side. As someone once said, you don't ever die until the last person who loved you dies, so spread the love, because one day, someone who got touched by it it may even write about it.

Thank you very very much all and everything is very good thanks. A. Lot

The quality of the book is not as expected It was little dirty but yet I loved the content

Really good read