![]() ![]() Years later, in San Francisco, she learns about love for herself–and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Louis, she is attacked by a man many times her age. Sent by their mother to their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” When she journeys at eight to her mother’s side in St. Maya Angelou’s first memoir, published in 1969 is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Here is a book as joyous and painful, and as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. ![]()
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