I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

‘I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it’s like to be a human being. This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, amazingly, stand up again.’

In this first volume of her seven-book autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes a childhood lived with her devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small southern American town in the 1930s. Angelou grew to love the world despite suffering its cruelties and the lingering pain of abandonment. As a woman of colour, she experienced discrimination, violence, and extreme poverty yet suffering did not extinguish her hope, her sense of joy, or diminish a lifetime’s worth of inspirational achievements.

Format: Kindle Edition, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback & Audio CD

Paperback: 384 Pages

Language: English