TY  - BOOK
AU  - Angelou,Maya
TI  - I know why the caged bird sings
SN  - 0375507892 
AV  - PS3551.N464 Z466 2002
U1  -  813.54B 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Angelou, Maya
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - Homes and haunts
KW  - Arkansas
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Entertainers
KW  - United States
KW  - African American families
KW  - African American authors
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. 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. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.
 
Sent by their mother to live with 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.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis,
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