I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Substores
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Author:
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Substores
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Vikki P. (vikki322) reviewed on + 145 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant."
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